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Title: The Trials and Tribulations of Paying Ransomware Hackers Post by: HCK on October 23, 2020, 04:05:14 pm The Trials and Tribulations of Paying Ransomware Hackers
There's no question that hackers are getting increasingly ambitious -- the average ransom demand increased from about $29,000 in 2018 to more than $302,000 in 2019. U.S. law doesn't prohibit paying ransom per se; but when victims pay monies to people or organizations who have been sanctioned by the U.S. government...they get into more trouble. Source: The Trials and Tribulations of Paying Ransomware Hackers (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86894.html?rss=1) |