Ransomware's New Target: Why Your Backups Are Under Attack
Tintri, Friday, October 10th, 2025
Another week and another cyberattack incident making the news. Yet for every news report, there are countless cyberattack victims that are unreported or not high profile enough and the onslaught shows little signs of relenting.
A worrying trend is that ransomware groups no longer just target primary data; they go after your backups to fully incapacitate your firm and strong-arm a ransom payment.
According to the DCIG report on cybersecure NAS solutions, attackers now seek to encrypt data stored on them (including snapshots or backup files), or exfiltrate data stored from them. The days of simply storing data and hoping for the best are over. A modern disaster recovery solution is not about protecting data, it's about its recoverability. The challenge lies in identifying solutions that can make it possible.