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UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

There was a time where ransomware groups would decrypt your files if you paid up. Which was often cheaper than restoring an old backup or not having any

At some point, groups started not "honoring" the decryption promise. Which made everything a lot more uncertain