Comment on After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 10 months agoIts more likely that they are required to have insurance that would cover ransomware due to the sensitive information they have on patients
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s this. It’s also one of the most profitable forms of insurance for the insurance companies since everyone needs it but few end up using it.
On the other hand, once people started paying the ransomware scene became an actual industry. Before, the “send money to this number to get your files back” part was a bonus scam and you’d almost never get a response, so getting ransomed was a death sentence for a business that didn’t have working backups. Now the encryption key is sent 99% of the time the ransom is paid, and larger groups even offer tech support to their victims if they have trouble decrypting.
Source: half-remembered snippets from last year’s CompTIA Network Security course. Can’t actually double check it since we live in a capitalist hellscape where information is rented and goes poof after a few months.