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Ransomware negotiations a case in hand

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:33:44 GMT

Hi All

Some very important lessons to be learnt from this full dialogue on negotiating with Cybercriminals.

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-53214783

Regards

Caute_cautim

Re: Ransomware negotiations a case in hand

Caute_cautim — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 04:15:35 GMT

Then add the following:

https://www.cbronline.com/news/university-of-california-ransomware

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-53214783

How can we educate people not to pay up and survive?

Regards

Caute_Cautim

Re: Ransomware negotiations a case in hand

dcontesti — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:56:33 GMT

I think the answer is similar to all Security Awareness issues.....it is re-enforcement over and over (ad nauseum)...and then some won't learn.

The issue is that a lot of folks have now bought insurance and the hackers are now double dipping.......

Awareness is an age old problem. We saw it with virii and folks just clicking on things because they were curious.....now the hackers are becoming more sophisticated and sometimes the malware does not even need user intervention......

Folks, dont make / take good backups (which I believe would save some).

Great articles, thanks for sharing.

Re: Ransomware negotiations a case in hand

ericgeater — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:21:56 GMT

I didn't want to click the link at first. Was it BBC? Or ampproject.org? When I did eventually click the link (😲), the website is stylized to look like the BBC's! That was interesting.