Partner Perspectives – Detecting Ransomware: Behind the Scenes of an Attack

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on RedCanary.com Ransomware has been the threat of the year. If you’ve had even a lazy eye on current events in information security, you’ve heard about the WannaCry infection that recently took out endpoints for hundreds of companies. By now you’ve...

0x80042317 or Error: VSSControl: -2147212521

Challenge A task fails with the following error: Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212521 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot add volumes to the snapshot set. Cannot add a volume to the snapshot set. Volume name:...

PsExec NTDS.dit And SYSTEM Hive Download Utility

This module authenticates to an Active Directory Domain Controller and creates a volume shadow copy of the %SYSTEMDRIVE%. It then pulls down copies of the ntds.dit file as well as the SYSTEM hive and stores them. The ntds.dit and SYSTEM hive copy can be used in combination with other tools for...