The oil giant paid the ransom in an effort to quickly restore service — but it’s now accepted knowledge that paying ransom encourages more ransomware incidents.
While this seizure signals more accountability, there are many reasons to expect that ransomware attacks will quickly get worse before getting better.
Ransomware encrypts a victim’s data, making it unusable, unless the victim pays a ransom for the keys to decrypt the data. Recently, criminals have also threatened to publish an organization’s data if it does not pay the ransom. In an announcement Monday, Deputy Attorney General Lisa…
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