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My files are in the cloud, so ransomware can't touch them
I hear this a lot, and it's one of the riskiest assumptions in cybersecurity.
Ransomware can affect OneDrive, Google Drive and AWS S3. Not because Microsoft, Google or Amazon get "hacked," but because of how we use them.
Here's how it usually plays out:
πΉ A laptop gets infected through a phishing email
πΉ Ransomware encrypts the files on it
πΉ The sync app sees the changes and uploads the encrypted versions
πΉ Every other device and shared folder gets the damaged files too
Syncing wa...
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