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Millions of dollars paid in ransoms don’t just disappear off the books. And if they did, that would be an entirely different problem, which is perhaps even more
by refactor_master 6y ago
Millions of dollars paid in ransoms don’t just disappear off the books. And if they did, that would be an entirely different problem, which is perhaps even more illegal than paying the ransom.
- vmception 6y agofile it under Penetration Test
- GuB-42 6y agoRansomed company pays data recovery company, data recovery company pays ransom. I believe it is actually a common thing. The ransomed company is in the clear. They paid for a legitimate service, it is in the books, taxes paid, all that stuff. They may even really think that they got their data back without a ransom being paid. Less so for the data recovery company, but they can probably try to justify expenses by hiring "foreign cryptography experts", or doing "security research".