More likely started by an insider who is now getting paid in bitcoin.
These ransoms should never be paid. All it is doing is incentivizing and financing the next round of piracy.
Agreed. Can the city start subpoenaing employee's bank statements?
“These ransoms should never be paid. All it is doing is incentivizing and financing the next round of piracy”
That’s right. Baltimore, for all its faults, and there are many faults, at least hasn’t paid the ransom ware demand levied against the city after a May 7 attack. Services are still down (although email service has been restored and 911 works). It’s a pain to pay bills or tickets and buy or sell a house but I’d rather all of it than bow to crime.
Apparently the ones that hit this small town were more ambitious. Baltimore’s ransom was only $74,000.