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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).
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...

Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by intothev01d on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:15PM (#27887916)
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.