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Total costs for ransomware run at around half that of BEC* - but nobody admits to that if they’re not legally obliged to/it goes to court somehow/someone leaks it.
Ransomware is also a fantastic way of covering your tracks with the added bonus of maybe making some money.
//* Business Email Compromise, where the attacker poses as someone trusted by the victim/s and gets them to (typically) transfer funds to an account under the attackers control
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Particularly when an organisation does not encourage phoning the boss.
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As in 'actually we'd quite like our data wiped, thanks' ?
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Ransomware is also a fantastic way of covering your tracks with the added bonus of maybe making some money.
Huh? Wipe bad stuff then claim on some sort of ransom ware insurance?
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I'm just a bit shocked. Such a lot of money. And it's affected one of of our basic services. And somehow it just seems to be the new normal.