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Right now the FBI's advice for companies that get critical systems crypto locked is to just pay the ransom. https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-c
by lozaning 8y ago
Right now the FBI's advice for companies that get critical systems crypto locked is to just pay the ransom.
https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-cryptolocker-just-pay-the-ransom/ https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-cryptolock...
- michaelbuckbee 8y agoThat was in 2015, at the time ransomware was somewhat "behaved" and there weren't the many different variants that did things like just scrambling your files and throwing up a Bitcoin address to "decrypt" them. I think things have shifted now to the where it's not something that's recommended.
- lsllc 8y agoMy local Police Department got their dept. computers crypto locked via some ransomware or other, the FBI told them to pay the 1 bitcoin or whatever they were asking, which they did and got it unlocked!