A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product

Ransomware threat hunters can now collect rewards of $10,000 for each piece of intel they file under a new bug bounty that aims to squash extortionists. "We want to eradicate ransomware," Steve Salinas, a senior director of product marketing at Halcyon, told The Register. "It is the most damaging type of attack. Not only does …

[Gene Cash]

A little elitist here

> A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product

Sure, and can you see any open source project being able to stump up a quarter-of-a-mil? No? Why not? I'm sure they'd love to.

Perhaps being a commercial product is how they got to being able to spaff out that amount of money.

I'd like to spend a million bucks on a huge shop full of tools, but somehow I'm not able to. Can't imagine why... perhaps it's something to do with my bank balance?

[BartyFartsLast]

Re: A little elitist here

The point (which seems to have flown over your head at altitude) is that the information they're not sharing will likely be subject to NDA and could be regarded as yet another ransom for victims "buy our product or else"

[ecofeco]

Want to eliminate ransomware?

Maybe, I dunno, and I know this will sound radical and crazy, but maybe MAKE THE SOFTWARE COMPANIES SECURE THEIR SHIT? By law?