According to this TC article, it's basically illegal for a company to pay the ransom: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-sources/ https

According to this TC article, it's basically illegal for a company to pay the ransom: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-sources/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/25/garmin-outage-ransomware-s... I sort of agree with that since if companies start paying up then suddenly that thing will be more and more widespread.