Its expertise in demolishing backups has helped Conti – a top-tier Russian-speaking ransomware group that specializes in double extortion – to rain down destruction. Officials said at the time that the attack would cost tens of millions of Euros to repair, even though the attackers didn’t even manage to encrypt systems. Palo Alto Networks has described the gang as a standout, and not in a good way: “It’s one of the most ruthless of the dozens of ransomware gangs that we follow,” the firm said.Īs of June, Conti had spent more than a year attacking organizations where IT outages can threaten lives: Hospitals, emergency number dispatch carriers, emergency medical services and law-enforcement agencies.Īn example: In May, Ireland’s department of health services was still reeling a week after a Conti ransomware attack that wasn’t even all that successful. After all, backups are a major obstacle to encouraging ransomware payment. That’s according to a report published on Wednesday by cyber-risk prevention firm Advanced Intelligence, which details how Conti has honed its backup destruction to a fine art. Not everybody is fond of Linux or the CLI, so we have created an Ubuntu 20.04LTS server with all of the requirements baked-in as an OVA Virtual Appliance, and then documented the step-by-step instructions to mounting a SAN LUN, formatting it as XFS, and then creating your Veeam Immutable Repository.Good at identifying and obliterating backups? Speak Russian? The notorious Conti ransomware group may find you a fine hiring prospect.
VMsources has created a Virtual Appliance in OVA format, following Veeam Best Practices, making it easy for anybody to mount an iSCSI LUN as a Veeam Immutable Repository. While that’s an admirable goal, there are lots of us with Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures, and we rely on SAN systems to provide block storage.
What an Immutable Repository is designed to do: What about validation, does it actually work, you ask? Yes, and it is tested and proven by Cohasset Associates meeting the requirements for non-rewritable, non-erasable storage as specified by SEC 17a-4(f), FINRA 4511(c) and CFTC 1.31(c)-(d). Veeam Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air gapped,” tape, or WORM backups! Immutable Backups are accomplished through the use of a Linux repository server, the XFS filesystem (to support Fast Clone), one-time-use credentials, and the immutability flag which is a property of just about any Linux filesystem.
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Moving forward, Veeam Immutable Backups will free organizations from the hassle of physical tape libraries as well as eliminating the need for expensive “virtual tape libraries,” all while providing easily manageable backup chains. Veeam Backup and Replication 11 is a true game-changer with its Immutable Backup feature.
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John Borhek How to guides, Linux, SAN Storage, Veeam April 14, 2021
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