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Global ransomware attack causes chaos
Oh lovely, I go out for lunch and this happens. As if the last time around it wasn't causing enough panic around here.
Andrei Barysevich, a spokesman for security firm Recorded Future told the BBC such attacks would not stop because cyber-thieves found them too lucrative.
"A South Korean hosting firm just paid $1m to get their data back and that's a huge incentive," he said. "It's the biggest incentive you could offer to a cyber-criminal."
-- who the #*@! authorised that. Now they have $1M to do stuff. This is like paying off ISIS so they don't annex your place into their caliphate.
Oh lovely, I go out for lunch and this happens. As if the last time around it wasn't causing enough panic around here.
Andrei Barysevich, a spokesman for security firm Recorded Future told the BBC such attacks would not stop because cyber-thieves found them too lucrative.
"A South Korean hosting firm just paid $1m to get their data back and that's a huge incentive," he said. "It's the biggest incentive you could offer to a cyber-criminal."
-- who the #*@! authorised that. Now they have $1M to do stuff. This is like paying off ISIS so they don't annex your place into their caliphate.