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by nl 3635 days ago
It is just as obvious to ransomware authors.

Many ransomware variants target network attached backups, eg [1]. They often target USB attached storage too.

[1] https://www.cert.gov.au/advisories/ransomware

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Yep. One of our tech support guys managed to get infected and it encrypted significant parts of our Synology NAS.

Offsite backup ftw. We restored from Glacier.