Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam (opens in new tab)

(krebsonsecurity.com)

9 pointsanimationwill5y ago4 comments

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That's funny, considering many municipal budgets had started including line items for paying of ransoms. It's cheaper for them to just pay, than to buy some product and probably still get infected and pay anyway. I guess the budget will now expand to include giving the feds their cut.

scoot_7185y ago

Makes sense, as long as (as they do claim) they take into account that willing disclosure and reporting artifacts can't be penalised.

noetokyo5y ago

Yea, but this is hackernews. Half the posts are sensationalized to antagonize the u.s. government.

anaganisk5y ago

Or the current US government really has some major problems.

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