Companies would still pay even if making ransomware payments was a felony. The ransomware gangs would not go away, companies would just have a bigger incentive

Companies would still pay even if making ransomware payments was a felony. The ransomware gangs would not go away, companies would just have a bigger incentive to hide ransomware attacks. These groups aren't going to go away even if 95% of companies suddenly stopped paying, deploying ransomware costs next to nothing. There's also a huge incentive for ransomware actors to punish this sort of regulation. > The ramsomware crisis is really bad now, and it keeps getting worse. How come everybody is crying about the "ransomware crisis", but you never hear about a "BEC crisis"? BEC losses are bigger than ransomware losses, and they keep getting worse.