Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:02AM (#27890813)

Ransomware gangs go after large organizations, those that can afford testing backups, not after pop and mom coffee shops.

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by amelius on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:01AM (#27891096)

Is this true? I think big organizations just end up in the news more often.

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by yodelshady on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:47AM (#27893057)

Third-hand evidence, mom n' pop shops don't have the expertise to pay in bitcoin. Or perhaps, more charitably, they've been inoculated by previous low-effort scams and smartly assume bitcoin payments are another.

Honestly I'm not sure many large IT depts have it either, but for $1M+ the attackers can afford good customer service.

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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:12AM (#27892794)

There was a school group featured in a report on BBC Radio 4 recently, they did handle quite large budgets, but they were also an educational charity. One of the governor's refrained (paraphrasing) "they must be totally immoral to target us"; I very much doubt they were targeted beyond 'can we exploit this box'.

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