this IT guy just saved an entire company from a ransomware attack at midnight and this story is insane bro was literally watching netflix when his phone started going crazy with server alerts. he remotes in and watches company files changing names one by one in real time, everything turning into garbled nonsense this man grabbed his car keys and drove to the office like a madman. got there 12:20 AM, pitch black, went desk to desk pulling LAN cables out of 40 PCs with his hands shaking the ransom note on every screen? pay us your entire monthly profit in bitcoin within 72 hours. his boss called and said just pay it, we need those files for monday he said no. companies that pay get targeted again went to restore from backups and the backup server was hit too. same network, same ransomware. bro said his mind went completely blank but he had one last card. every wednesday on his way home he manually backed up company data onto an external hard drive and kept it in his desk drawer. a habit he almost stopped doing because it felt like a waste of time that hard drive in a drawer saved the entire company rebuilt everything over the weekend, monday morning every shipment went out. his boss laughed and said "i'm glad you didn't send that bitcoin" next week two more hard drives showed up on his desk the boring habit nobody wants to do was the only thing that actually worked