Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
by wtracy on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:33PM
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> These guys can scale up by hiring 100s
If you live in the third world, that immediately puts you on the radar of corrupt government officials and organized criminal organizations that want to extort you.
The ransomware gig allows you to stay small and keep a low profile. Nobody has to know that you are raking in the cash until you pack up your family and book it to Tahiti.
> With their current approach they will almost certainly get traced eventually and end up in jail.
Prison in a first world country is a lot better than getting executed, watching your family get executed, or getting kidnapped and forced into slave labor for the local mafia boss.
If you live in the third world, that immediately puts you on the radar of corrupt government officials and organized criminal organizations that want to extort you.
The ransomware gig allows you to stay small and keep a low profile. Nobody has to know that you are raking in the cash until you pack up your family and book it to Tahiti.
> With their current approach they will almost certainly get traced eventually and end up in jail.
Prison in a first world country is a lot better than getting executed, watching your family get executed, or getting kidnapped and forced into slave labor for the local mafia boss.