Backup repository encryption detected
Your task
At 04:00 a storage alert fires: your backup repository share's used-capacity is climbing fast and dedup ratio cratering. On inspection the backup files are being rewritten with high-entropy data and renamed, your backups are being encrypted. Production app servers look fine (no .locked files, normal load) and last night's restore-test passed. The backup service account had broad write access to the repo and was reused across jobs. EDR shows the activity originating from the backup orchestrator host. How do you triage, contain, and figure out whether you can still recover, given the thing being attacked is your recovery path?
It covers
- Backups
- Recoverability
- Immutability
- Blast radius