ladies and gents i am about to do the unthinkable i'm
going to intentionally infect myself with one of the worst cyber security
threats of our time ransomware
wannacry.exe that sounds like a fun game
oh oh disk part 32-bit
that's not something i have installed you guys see that
my pictures are all gone downloads
videos all my files have been replaced
by these encrypted containers and please readme.txt question what's
wrong with my files oops your important files are encrypted you will not be able
to access them anymore whoa your files will be lost on january 7th
send 600 worth of bitcoin well that
sucks lucky for us we can just use the money
that acronis sent over to us to sponsor this video oh and by the way no we're
not sending them any money because we're going to be using a cronus's latest true
image 2020 software to get back the files we lost while showing off some of
their machine learning and cyber security features that will help protect
us in the future
the basic principle of ransomware and cryptojacking is this the user clicks on
a link to a free cruise then the software encrypts the user's files and
as the name implies demands a ransom for
the luxury of accessing the files ever again it's like opening your door to a
friendly looking old lady but instead of complimenting you on your fashion
choices lttstore.com by the way she roundhouse kicks you steals your car
keys and then demands 0.1 bitcoins to have them back and the problem is that
while some ransomwares have been defeated in many cases there is simply
no way to decrypt the files without actually paying the ransom so we wanted
to put a cronus up against no before's ren sim software which simulates 15
ransomware infection scenarios and one crypto mining scenario the purpose of
this is to test your current network protection in a safe environment and
ransom installs its own dummy files so that our super confidential files won't
be accessed by the way guys yes we turned off all network connections
physically on this thing before running this otherwise it could really have
junked up our network please do not do this at home so let's try ransom without
any protection and 16 out of 16 scenarios gobbled away at
our system as for just running Windows defender well it actually did manage to
block one of them but the other 15 would have ended up wreaking havoc on our
machine big oof as the kids say with acronis
true image act of protection it managed to flag all the activity and all 16 of
the scenarios were defended against as long as we clicked block when the pop-up
came up do note though that if you don't click block it won't defend against it
that's to avoid it blocking false positives
active protection works by constantly observing data access patterns on not
only your system but also on both of acronis's infected and non-infected
processing farms the acronis cloud ai
then uses machine learning to build models for detecting suspicious behavior
when a model is created it's pushed to all their customers so that on their
system the software can act preemptively preventing a malicious data breach from
bringing judgment day to your device now in the event that genuine data access
behavior is altered such as updated software or unique activity acronis
active protection is capable of creating and maintaining an adjustable whitelist
and blacklist of programs you guys actually saw that when we intentionally
added wannacry to our whitelist normally
you wouldn't do that so we're gonna want to fix this nonsense
background wallpaper that's sending us helpful reminders to pay up squirt and
get back our private and important files because we made a full system backup of
this device using a cronus true image we can simply restore it to a previous
version and obtain all of our precious files back
by navigating to the recovery tab we can see all of our previous backups both the
full system ones and each incremental backup so then restoring the system back
to the state that it was in before we ever saw that luxury cruise advert is
about 30 minutes with all of our files accessible again ransomware zero acronis
one so let's show how we use true image 2020
to do this it starts with downloading it from the acronis website running the
installation and then upon startup following the quick start guide through
the setup and major features run down here acronis offers a 30-day trial if
you want to try it out before you buy but honestly even your granddad could do
this allowing him to keep his mind sweeper high scores and outdated memes
both safe and sound we used this feature here to make a
mirror image of the entire system backing up everything all the way down
to our drivers system preferences and virtual machines so that the image can
later be used to recover the entire pc and all of its content and the thing is
that this can be useful even outside of ransomware infections like if our
machine was ever lost or damaged the tier that we're using also has five
terabytes of acronis's cloud storage meaning that we are following the three
two one principle for our data backup by having an off-site copy with the added
benefit of acronis's cloud working like other cloud storage services and
allowing individual files to be migrated to any other device
with one account you can protect up to five Windows or macOS machines and an
unlimited number of Android and iOS mobile devices along with your office
365 data so if you're sick of losing data or you dance with lady luck on
dodgy sites far too often click the link in the description to head over to
acronis's website it's got lots more features that we didn't cover today like
deduplication to speed up the image creation process master boot record
protection and its own self-defense mechanism to keep malware from shutting
it down for a limited time guys just for LTT viewers acronis is offering a
discount on its true image software so head on over there at the link below now
thanks again to acronis for sponsoring this video we'll see you guys in the next one