> Dmitry Smilyanets, a researcher for the security firm Recorded Future, said BlackCat’s exit scam was especially dangerous because the affiliate still has all

> Dmitry Smilyanets, a researcher for the security firm Recorded Future, said BlackCat’s exit scam was especially dangerous because the affiliate still has all the stolen data, and could still demand additional payment or leak the information on his own. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say:— "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane-geld_(poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane-geld_(poem) & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld … now imagine if they'd put that $22M — an amount that would fund my entire team for the remainder of our lives — into engineers.