Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
by sho on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:24AM
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You are correct. I have had the "pleasure" of going through the negotiation process before. There are even companies that specialise in it, and have DBs on who is a "trusted" threat actor (the industry term) who will actually honor the terms of the transaction or not.
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of such deals done every year.
Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
by dredmorbius on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:04AM
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You'd think a GPT3 / GAN could be created to handle much of that. It's a percentages game anyway.
Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
by whimsicalism on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:29AM
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Why would you want GPT to handle multi million dollar negotiations?
Sorta playing into stereotypes about engineers here.
Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
by dredmorbius on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:36AM
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Scale.
Perhaps not the largest groups, but the smaller ones, posssibly.
Yes much can be automated but there is usually a human element to these deals and that costs the hackers money.
They also want to be careful to limit their hacks to companies their handlers are happy for them to hack. Go too wide and you risk hitting a company directly or indirectly linked to your state/handler/patron.