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I've heard the argument that paying gives them an incentive to develop stronger ransomware, harming the entire industry. Since this most recent ransomware depen
by MichaelBurge 9y ago
I've heard the argument that paying gives them an incentive to develop stronger ransomware, harming the entire industry. Since this most recent ransomware depends on leaked NSA tools, no amount of incentives will get the script kiddies writing similarly sophisticated exploits. Then, are there really any long-term drawbacks if people pay the ransom?
- tdb7893 9y agoThis exploit depended on the tools but unless the NSA keeps leaking tools it's not like there are going to keep being more so at a certain point the randomware people need their own exploits. That's not even counting it probably takes at least some amount of work to turn an exploit into a working ransomware and also set up the payments in a way that governments can't go after you