This success story describes how a leading financial institution responded to a significant ransomware incident that began when an employee opened a malicious email attachment carrying Emotet and TrickBot, which rapidly propagated across the organization without obvious performance symptoms. The internal IT team contained spread by using a cloud-based VPN strategy to isolate sites and shut down internet access to prevent outbound communication, stopping data exfiltration even though trojans had already collected network and user data. Adapture arrived onsite within days, scoped the infection, and executed a business-continuity remediation plan that isolated and reimaged 140+ machines, added endpoint protection, rebuilt compromised infrastructure including a domain controller, and restored

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