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Govts should make funding ransomware groups a criminal offense. The money likely going to RU and NK anyway.
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
Govts should make funding ransomware groups a criminal offense. The money likely going to RU and NK anyway.
- sweetjuly 3y agoThat probably wouldn't have a good outcome. If a company gets hit very hard, their options are either to pay or die. If you make it illegal to pay, their options are either to commit a crime (which will not kill the company even if they get caught) or die. All this will do is push companies into hiding when they get hit and not reaching out to the government and security companies for help, which makes catching these groups way harder. So, at best you kill some domestic businesses and at worst you kill domestic businesses AND help the attackers hit more companies.
- octacat 3y agoOptions to configure backups and spend the money on isolating their network and computers to begin with are not considered.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoTo the contrary: the first company to die (or so) would set a fire under any companies who were not prepared. It's complacency and ignorance that creates problems. The attackers attack for money, not to kill their prey, that's not profitable.
- tatersolid 3y agoOFAC has made paying many ransomware deploys illegal in the USA for several years. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20210921 https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20210921