umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoPandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted againwww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1237file-text
arrow-up1237external-linkPandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted againwww.bleepingcomputer.comumami_wasabi@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareumami_wasabi@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-26 months agoNot ransomware but just ransom to data exfil by a vulnerable API. But paying is still a dumb idea.
minus-squarevvv@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-26 months ago"Hi, I just sent the ransom payment to the Bitcoin address you provided. "Now you’ll unlock my data, right? “… right?”
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoSure. Make it profitable to the hackers to keep doing it.
minus-squarelaurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIf the alternative is “likely go out of business”, then yeah… They already made it profitable for the hackers by not backing their data up properly, this is just that bill coming due.
Not ransomware but just ransom to data exfil by a vulnerable API. But paying is still a dumb idea.
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"Hi, I just sent the ransom payment to the Bitcoin address you provided.
"Now you’ll unlock my data, right?
“… right?”
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Sure. Make it profitable to the hackers to keep doing it.
If the alternative is “likely go out of business”, then yeah…
They already made it profitable for the hackers by not backing their data up properly, this is just that bill coming due.