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byjonbryce ( 703250 ) writes:
In previous ransomware attacks against government computers, such as NHS England, NHS Scotland, British Library, various school trusts, and some local councils, they have not paid the ransom.
We do need to ban ransom payments from the private sector to make the business model of these gangs not work. There is no other way to do it.
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byDarkOx ( 621550 ) writes:
None of it matters unless the threat actors believe there is no degree of pain to severe they could inflict that would make governments chose to pay.
These are at least in some cases foreign state sponsored actors - there is no reason to think say that when attacking hospital / public health administration, that some number of people literally dying because care can't be manage is 'a problem' for them.
So all no ransom payment policies do unless they are truly absolute is make the threat actors so their are s
bytoxonix ( 1793960 ) writes:
It's not cost effective or usually plausible to go after them once the data has already been encrypted. Important files are suddenly unreadable, and a popup says that you need to post a certain amount of money to a crypto exchange. There's intentionally nobody to contact, no person with a disguised voice on a telephone giving elaborate cash drop instructions.
Paying criminals off incentivizes more criminals to engage in criminal behavior. The cost of good security is much lower than the cost of having gove
byDarkOx ( 621550 ) writes:
bitcoins are highly trackable; most activities that can convert large sums of crypto to spendable cash are typically trackable. At least by nation state actors.
The norm right now and they way they get away is people say - "Oh Salt Typhoon, nothing more we can do than have the ambassador send a pointed but respectful letter" is in China.
If instead we just had some human intelligent asset, kill some of those operators, things might actually change. They could also escalate of course, but then that is really j
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