What are the early warning signs of ransomware on a network?
Regular connections from a workstation to a new outside server, one host scanning internal ranges for SMB, RDP or database ports, new administrator sessions to many servers, and a large upload to cloud storage from a server that normally sends little. They usually come in that order, before any file is encrypted.
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