Niche Cloud Provider Data Resolution Still Resolving Christmas Malware Attack

Cloud hosting provider Data Resolution was briefly locked out of its own domain over the Christmas holiday break and was still working Wednesday to restore operations for many of its customers.The San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based company saw its systems infected on Christmas Eve by Ryuk—the same malware that impaired delivery operations for newspapers across the country, reported Krebs on Security, the blog of tech journalist Brian Krebs. Data Resolution specializes in hosting Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint, and some of those workloads for mid-market customers were still not back up and running by Wednesday morning, according to a status message Krebs published that the company shared with its customers on Dropbox.