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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by spurdoman77 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:50PM (#24034049)
Market price? Interesting way to put it. You could say that the ransomware issuer has a monopoly to the data and will price it to the level where the company owners have higher return paying and continuing it than closing the company down.
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by vmception on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:04AM (#24034118)
its two order of magnitude better than the unilateral pricing set by companies to their white hack programs, which white hat people have to fight for.
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