US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat

Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by nradov on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:28PM (#24033290)

If you were a corporate executive would you risk hard prison time just to save your employer from taking a loss? The whole point of imposing draconian penalties is to make such attacks unprofitable. If the attackers know they won't be able to extract any money from victims then they'll move on to some other scheme.

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by learc83 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:38PM (#24033364)

Executives don't go to jail when their companies kill people. There's no way we manage to restructure our justice system so that they go to jail for paying ransoms.

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by newen on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:40PM (#24033375)

There are reasons why companies manage to do tons of illegal things. A lot of executives would have a good amount of their wealth in company stocks, for example. This has no reason to be an exception.

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by TylerE on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:13PM (#24033874)

> If you were a corporate executive would you risk hard prison time just to save your employer from taking a loss?

Uh, have you looked at all the corporate scandals of the last, say, 40 years?

White collar execs never do hard time anyway. At the absolute worst they get 6 months at some cushy minimum security... aka Club Fed.

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by sumedh on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:00PM (#24033809)

Banks deal with cartels and other bad guys, they make lot of money and pay a small fine when they get caught. Why do you think paying ransoms would be different?

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