Who pays, and why: A researcher examines the ransomware victim’s mindset

What makes one ransomware victim more likely to pay up than another? That’s what one Dutch researcher set out to find, analyzing national police and incident response data on hundreds of cases over the last four years. Companies that work with a third-party incident response firm are the most willing to pay their extortionists, he

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