UK, US, Australia issue joint advisory: Ransomware on the loose, critical national infrastructure affected Ransomware attacks are proliferating as criminals turn to gangs providing turnkey post-compromise services, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. In a joint UK-US-Australia advisory issued this afternoon, the three countries said they had "observed an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware …
Payment is what it's all about and the advisory condemned the paying of ransoms, saying: "Every time a ransom is paid, it confirms the viability and financial attractiveness of the ransomware criminal business model." .... Britain's National Cyber Security Centre
An interesting statement/admission whenever one thinks of the taxation clone levied so freely by governments against whatever they imagine able to pay. Criminal eh? Hmmm?
To all with a titter of wit, and especially to those without such a sense and who would anonymously supply a downvote without furnishing it with even the simplest of reasoned explanation and thus waste the opportunity to make a difference in a deep seescape beyond shallow comprehension ..... you deny the veracity of the possibility of the parallel similarities which match ransom and taxation at your peril in those novel times of virtual space places which directly impact upon physical environments/Earthly terrain and politically divided and divisive territories.
Don't pay extortionists? Firms shelled out $5bn in Bitcoin in 6 months
Heard yesterday in a ransomware related webinar: most of the "ransomwared" companies now pay crooks, mostly because of
1) being insured
2) trying to avoid to have their dirty little secrets exposed (or at least thinking they won't be).
Trusting crooks is so stupid, it's unbelievable most boards choose to do it.
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