Hi There!
I've just shared this story in my VUG Group, Spain,
But I wanted to translate it to English and share it with all of you,
Its a Personal experience,
Hi,
I want to share with you my latest experience as a IT Infrastructure responsible, just a week before moving into a new company.
August 10th 2022, enjoying my holidays, I was celebrating my birthday with my family, my mobile dings and I saw the message:
“We’ve got a Virus in our Systems”
I left everything I was doing, quickly went to the office to get a better understanding of what was going on, and execute the necessary actions to mitigate and solve the issue.
Into my head I had the crazy idea:
“Its just a joke” my colleagues are doing this to scare me and its a surprise… I was wrong.
We confirmed that the virus was a ransomware called <DonkeyF*cker> and hit our servers and spread himself like gunpowder into our Servers.
After a huge effort, we finally find the origin of the Infection and encryption, we took it offline, formatted with no regret, and then, Time to recover… “Surprise!!” Our backups were hit and the repository was not accessible!
Calm down, we could recover all our servers from the attack, cause in our design, we were replicating all virtual machines between hosts, like a “last resort” plan if we lost production backups and replicas.
We restored everything, thanks to our vision, Plan DR execution and also Veeam configurations and knowledge.
Im sharing this as a horror story, but with a positive ending, but when you are in the middle of the “situation”, it’s a Nightmare.
Please share your experiences and horror stories, so all of us can learn a bit from everybody else’s experiences.
Take care.
Luis.