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Re:US-led coalition of nations agrees to end ransomware paym... by filoleg on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#38091144)
Ayup, another example I can remember of is that swedish professor who went ahead and hired services of a PMC to extract her grad student and his family from Iraq[0].

Background: the student vent to visit his family back in Iraq as his town was under an ISIS attack, which is how he ended up getting stuck there.

0. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-swedish-professor-hel...

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Re:US-led coalition of nations agrees to end ransomware paym... by fragmede on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:55PM (#38091245)
The untold stories from the security department of all the FAANGs from the invasion of Ukraine would take more movies than there are Marvel movies.
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Re:US-led coalition of nations agrees to end ransomware paym... by mdekkers on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:49AM (#38095012)
That wasn’t as exciting as you appear to think it was. I have family from Ukraine (now living with us) and worked with a lot of Ukrainians (and Russians) when the shooting war started. Most of my current contractors are displaced Ukrainians.

There were no “Zero Dark Thirty” style extractions.

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