Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator

Re:Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator by infinityplus1 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:09AM (#28525069)

I am a shady company who wants to take down a competitor. I can hire a hacker who'll do the dirty job for me and then get paid in cold hard cash. Or a nation state actor can decide to attack an enemy country's infrastructure.

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Re:Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator by nkrisc on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:47AM (#28525662)

So? If their goal is destruction what does that have to do with ransomware? They can do that whether paying the ransom is legal or not.

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Re:Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator by infinityplus1 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:08AM (#28525995)

Deception? It can confuse the target about the motives of the attack.

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Re:Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator by nkrisc on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:29PM (#28531607)

So they were going to destroy data anyway, so this isn’t what outlawing ransom payments is meant prevent because it can’t. It will prevent ransomware for profit if no one pays.

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