There’s no question that hackers are getting increasingly ambitious — the average ransom demand increased from about $29,000 in 2018 to more than $302,000 in 2019. U.S. law doesn’t prohibit paying ransom per se; but when victims pay monies to people or organizations who have been sanctioned by the U.S. government…they get into more trouble.
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The Trials and Tribulations of Paying Ransomware Hackers
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 23, 2020 04:34 AMThere’s no question that hackers are getting increasingly ambitious — the average ransom demand increased from about $29,000 in 2018 to more than $302,000 in 2019. U.S. law doesn’t prohibit paying ransom per se; but when victims pay monies to people or organizations who have been sanctioned by the U.S. government…they get into more trouble.