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I would guess that the affected entities here are not companies, but public entities. Federal departments, the state governments, and municipal governments all
by InitialLastName 3y ago
I would guess that the affected entities here are not companies, but public entities. Federal departments, the state governments, and municipal governments all run their own IT systems and have been affected by ransomware; if there is a top-down policy of "don't pay the ransom" it presumably affects policy for all of those.
- londons_explore 3y agoEven if there is a top down policy of not paying ransoms, the attackers still have an incentive to format the drives and leak the data to gain credibility for their next attack. Many types of attack don't actually know where they're breaking into at the time they break in. And once you're in, you might as well try running a ransom attack.