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Re:Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ra... by candiodari on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:45AM (#37246890)
... until the next update to these viruses.

To utterly destroy an organisation you don't erase or encrypt their data. You change it. Slowly. A little by a little. A birthday here, a name there, a number ... Using the normal ways to change this data. In this way you can go undiscovered for years, employees get blamed for making stupid errors for a LONG time and there is absolutely no way to fix things, no matter what the backup strategy is.

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Re:Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ra... by beardyw on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:34AM (#37247221)
But for ransomware there needs to be a hope of restoring the data. In this case the value would need to be more oblique.
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Re:Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ra... by tatersolid on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:09AM (#37247461)
The ransomware gang buys put options on the victim’s stock. Sabotage-backed options scams have been around for a long time.
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