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Mmm maybe, but also: "Victims who pay the ransoms are very likely to be funding the North Korean hereditary dictatorship, which actively practises all kinds of
by dTal 7y ago
Mmm maybe, but also:
"Victims who pay the ransoms are very likely to be funding the North Korean hereditary dictatorship, which actively practises all kinds of organised, deliberate barbarity"
So it's probably good to promulgate the idea that it doesn't even work - if no one pays the ransom, the ransomware will die. That's why it's in the creator's interest to make a working decryptor in the first place.
- setr 7y agoWell, the ransomware will continue spreading, if it operates autonomously, independent of whether the decryptor works. New ransomware might not be created however
- panarky 7y agoI've heard that Ryuk is highly targeted, usually a manual secondary attack on enterprises that can afford a much higher ransom than normal. So it's probably not autonomous, and its reputation for unreliable decryption after payment should make victims less willing to pay.