Encryption In Real Time: What Really Happens During A Ransomware Attack
Veeam, Monday, June 16th, 2025
It starts like any other morning - except for the IT admin, who logs in first.
You check the monitoring dashboard and see a few alerts: elevated CPU usage, a couple of failed logins, then a string of disconnected endpoints. At first, it looks like routine noise. Maybe a patch failed overnight. Maybe a script hung.
But then you try to remote into a system and get no response. You check the file servers: shared drives are inaccessible and offline. Support tickets start pouring in. Files won't open. Apps are crashing...