Can ransomware infect a database?

Can ransomware affect databases?

Ransomware Is Targeting Enterprise Data The risks for companies are higher now that attackers are targeting databases, where companies store their most sensitive, critical, and often most valuable data and are demanding larger extortion sums.

Can ransomware affect SQL?

Ransomware attacks are highly effective, but they aren't the most sophisticated attacks. The attack functions just like Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) does in SQL Server, except that you don't have the have the encryption key. Typically, variants will attack your MDF, NDF, LDF and your backup files (BAK and TRN).

Can ransomware access your data?

Data Theft To help incentivize their victims to pay the ransom demands, some ransomware variants now include a data theft component. Before encrypting the files on a user's computer, the ransomware will search for valuable data and send copies to the attacker.

Can a virus infect a database?

Thousands of MSSQL databases have been infected so far, according to the cybersecurity arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent. In a report published earlier this month, Tencent Security has named this new malware gang MrbMiner, after one of the domains used by the group to host their malware.