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To be fair, it's a pinky promise where the attackers know that if they ever break one of these promises, nobody will ever pay them a dime again.
by dmd 6y ago
To be fair, it's a pinky promise where the attackers know that if they ever break one of these promises, nobody will ever pay them a dime again.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThey can make it a monthly subscription to get recurring revenue.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoRaaS.
- notahacker 6y agotbh that's not necessarily the case since the attackers are anonymous. It's just they don't actually have much incentive to release the records once they've collected their blackmail money.
- c22 6y agoThey can just change their name next time.
- frank2 6y agoIt is not its own reputation that this particular attacker is able to defend, it is the reputation of anonymous attackers in general, which depends mostly on how other attackers behave, not how this particular attacker behaves. So the incentive to keep its promise is only weak.