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Re:Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attac... by xkyf on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:41PM (#27373760)
That gets discussed every time, hackers were using prepaid cash services. Ransomware predates cryptocurrencies by decades.
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Re:Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attac... by viraptor on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:58PM (#27373940)
It's a bit of the "we have X at home" meme situation. Sure, ransomware existed before, but the scale was not even close to that. You can't move hundreds of millions in gift / prepaid cards without getting found. It's a completely different level of comfort for the operators.
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Re:Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attac... by anonymousDan on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:48PM (#27374988)
Do you have evidence for this claim? I'm almost certain it's no longer true.
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