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Enough Companies Are Still Paying Ransoms To Hackers, Researchers Say

From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 20 11:46:12 2023

https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/01/19/194241/fewer-companies-are-paying-ransoms-to-hackers-researchers-say

*Fewer Companies Are Paying Ransoms To Hackers, Researchers Say* (bloomberg.com) 21 ; Posted by msmash on Thursday January 19, 2023
@03:30PM from the promising-feedback dept.

Fewer companies that are infected with ransomware are coughing up
extortion payments demanded [A] by hackers, according to new research from Chainalysis. […]
[A] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-19/fewer-companies-are-paying-ransomware-hackers-chainalysis-says

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A. Filip

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From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 20 19:30:32 2023

Am 20.01.2023 um 11:46:12 Uhr schrieb Andrzej Adam Filip:

*Fewer Companies Are Paying Ransoms To Hackers, Researchers Say*

As long as people pay them, this type of malware will exists.

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From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Andrzej Adam Filip on Fri Jan 20 18:51:05 2023

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:46:12 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/01/19/194241/fewer-companies-are-paying-ransoms-to-hackers-researchers-say

*Fewer Companies Are Paying Ransoms To Hackers, Researchers Say*
(bloomberg.com) 21 ; Posted by msmash on Thursday January 19, 2023
@03:30PM from the promising-feedback dept.

Fewer companies that are infected with ransomware are coughing up
extortion payments demanded [A] by hackers, according to new research from >> Chainalysis. […]
[A] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-19/fewer-companies-are-paying-ransomware-hackers-chainalysis-says

<sarcasm>And why not? As long as paying ransoms is cheaper than have the
IT (do you have an IT?) dealing with security issues.</sarcasm>

Well, good to hear amounts of payments dropped significantly though.
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Andreas

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