16 June 2017 — 4 min read
The Story That I'm Almost Too Embarrassed to Share
One weekday not that long ago, things started out as a normal morning at work. Coffee, morning music, checking email and getting into the daily routine... until our phones suddenly started ringing off the hook and our email started blowing up. It happened quickly and all at once. Our Quality and Engineering departments were getting Windows error dialog boxes when trying to open Excel files from our shared network drives. It took a minute to figure out what was happening, but we soon noticed that many of the files on our shared drives had been renamed. We also noticed that besides not being able to open files, there were some new readme files in our shared folders. Reviewing the readme files and doing a quick Google search revealed that we'd been hit with ransomware.