Ransomware Data Recovery Services

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Restore Your Business Operations With Fast, Reliable Ransomware Data Recovery

When malicious encryption hits your critical systems, every second counts. Total Data Migration (TDM) provides immediate and strategic ransomware data recovery solutions to swiftly restore your crucial business data. With over 30 years of expertise, our team uses advanced, proprietary technology to recover ransomware-encrypted data without relying on conventional methods. Navigate ransomware incidents confidently and safeguard your operations against future threats, backed by our expert guidance and proven success.

  • Rapid Response to Ransomware Threats

    Businesses facing ransomware attacks often experience severe operational disruptions. TDM’s ransomware recovery team provides 24/7 emergency response times, leveraging advanced methodologies to restore data swiftly, minimize downtime, and enable your organization to return to normal operations quickly and securely.

  • Litigation-Savvy Recovery Experts

    We understand the sensitive nature of ransomware attacks, especially when litigation is involved. Our experienced team collaborates closely with litigation directors, legal advisors, and incident response professionals, delivering meticulous ransomware data recovery services and comprehensive documentation for legal proceedings.

Our Proven, Step-by-Step Ransomware Recovery Plan

TDM follows a structured, transparent process:

  1. Assessing the immediate situation
  2. Identifying key priorities
  3. Methodically executing a custom-tailored ransomware data recovery plan.

Our experts guide you seamlessly from crisis to recovery, ensuring clarity at each step and empowering your team throughout the entire process.

Proprietary Solutions Without Relying on Decryptors

Unlike traditional recovery approaches, TDM’s unique technology eliminates the need for decryptors. This revolutionary approach significantly speeds up recovery timelines, enhances security, and ensures that your business data is safely recovered without engaging threat actors, providing peace of mind and operational resilience.

Close the Loop on Ransomware With Forensics and Incident Response

When ransomware hits, recovery is only part of the job. You also need defensible evidence, a clear timeline, and coordination with legal and insurance. Total Data Migration extends your recovery engagement with turnkey digital forensics and incident response support. We preserve what matters, document every step, and move you from crisis to clarity fast.

Add-on services include:

  • Chain-of-custody forensic imaging: Evidence-grade acquisitions of servers, endpoints, and storage, fully documented for audits and legal review.
  • Expert witness services for litigation: Clear, nontechnical testimony on methods and findings for depositions, hearings, and trials.
  • Data breach triage and timeline reconstruction: Rapid scoping, artifact analysis, and event mapping to establish what happened and when.
  • eDiscovery support for law firms and internal audits: Targeted collections, defensible processing, and delivery in review-ready formats.

Put DFIR and recovery under one roof. Ask your TDM representative to add forensics and IR support to your ransomware engagement.

Speak With a Specialist Today

When ransomware hits, time matters. Alert our team now so we can protect evidence and begin a clean, validated restore.

Case Study: TDM and Ransomware Recovery

After a devastating ransomware incident locked down critical infrastructure across their entire network, a client faced a highly complex recovery scenario. They were left with a combination of compromised assets—including encrypted virtual machines, quick-erased LTO-5 backup tapes, and fragmented data packets—with no viable path forward. After alternative restoration efforts proved unsuccessful, Total Data Migration was engaged to analyze all remaining data repositories and salvage every possible asset.

The attack left behind a highly fragmented infrastructure, creating significant technical hurdles across multiple restoration avenues:

  • Widespread Encryption: Critical file servers, application systems, underlying infrastructure, and SQL (Prophet21) databases were completely locked.
  • Compromised Replication: Replicated VMware environments held a volatile mix of corrupted, incomplete, and potentially uninfected systems.
  • Erased Media: The organization’s LTO-5 backup tapes had undergone a quick-erase procedure, making them completely unreadable by standard hardware and software.
  • Corrupted Prior Artifacts: Earlier, unsuccessful decryption attempts left the remaining data structures fragmented and unstable.
  • No Linear Solution: Because no single source offered a clean, straightforward restore point, every asset required individual forensic evaluation and custom handling.

Total Data Migration deployed a diversified, parallel recovery strategy, simultaneously investigating every potential data source rather than risking time on a single method.

  • Virtual Environment Analysis: Conducted a granular forensic audit of the VMware replication layout across various virtual disks. While the replicated SQL systems were deemed unrecoverable, we successfully carved out file server fragments using artifact-based extraction and isolated a pristine, fully intact FAXSERVER dataset for immediate deployment.
  • Tape Media Reconstruction: Utilized specialized laboratory techniques to bypass the end-of-data (EOD) marks on the quick-erased LTO-5 tapes. This allowed us to extract the raw magnetic data, locate vital Veeam backup components (.VBK, .VIB, and .VBM), and manually stitch the backup chains back together.
  • Backup Reconstitution & Extraction: Mounted the repaired Veeam backup sets inside our isolated recovery environment, verified the integrity of the restore points, and successfully pulled the core SQL databases, application configurations, and file systems.

Despite the compounding challenges of active encryption, media erasure, and data fragmentation across the board, Total Data Migration achieved a successful recovery:

  • System Restoration: Fully restored primary operational environments—including file servers, applications, and the SQL (Prophet21) database—utilizing the reconstructed tape media.
  • Targeted Extraction: Recovered and delivered a flawless FAXSERVER dataset pulled directly from the replication infrastructure.
  • Media Salvage: Successfully extracted functional backup chains from tape cartridges that had previously been written off as unrecoverable.
  • Operational Readiness: Delivered structured, fully verified data sets that were structured for immediate deployment back into production.

The client successfully restarted their business operations, effectively mitigating long-term operational downtime.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Ransomware Recovery Services

Do not turn off affected machines or attempt to delete encrypted files. Disconnect infected devices from your network, preserve the ransom note and any other artifacts, and contact TDM immediately. Early action protects evidence and improves your recovery outcome.

Our team has experience recovering data from a wide range of ransomware variants, including LockBit, BlackCat (ALPHV), Ryuk, Hive, Maze, Conti, and many others. Each recovery is assessed individually since every attack has unique characteristics.

TDM’s goal is to recover as much critical data as possible in its original, usable format. In a recent case, our team recovered over 90% of a client’s critical data, restoring full operational capacity. We validate recovered data before returning it to ensure integrity.