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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by jerhewet on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:51PM (#27887662)
Isn't this more of a "We don't want our client / customer information released to The World At Large" question? I would think most business entities have backups of some kind (Scripps being the only exception I can think of), and will pay the ransom to keep any sensitive information off the market.

Edit: Should have added that I find it hard to believe that companies have PB of data backed up. I could believe GB, and maybe even TB, but PB is pretty hard to swallow. The past three companies I've worked for (25 year span) had, at most, a couple of gigs of sensitive information that couldn't be easily replicated.

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by nelgaard on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:44PM (#27888145)
I also find it hard to believe that a ransomware gang could encrypt 50 Petabytes without anyone noticing it. It would also take some time to decrypt 50 petabytes if you paid the criminals and got the key.

And would you trust you data after criminals had access to it?

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by stan_rogers on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:05PM (#27887799)
Ransomware attacks rarely indicate any data leakage; all they usually do is prevent you from accessing your own data (by encrypting your drive with a key you don't have access to).
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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by djrogers on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:52PM (#27888208)
The current trend is double-extortion ransomware attacks - encrypt your copy of your data, and threaten to release it publicly as well.

[1] https://www.cybereason.com/blog/rise-of-double-extortion-shi...

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by intothev01d on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:15PM (#27887916)
O rly? https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime...
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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by runnerup on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:17PM (#27887935)
These days attacks labeled “ransomware” in the news seem to be hybrid attacks. There usually is sensitive data exfiltration in addition to encrypt-in-place.
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