With reports of this ransomware disabling hundreds of thousands of PSs worldwide, am I to believe that almost all of them are connected to an IT Dept that got them back up and running? Yell at me all you want about that, but it is a fact that the vast majority of users don’t do backups etc. Not because I want to surrender to the bad guys, but because, frankly, my backups are not so recent. Really? So few? How are people dealing with this? Are they really able to “rebuild and recover from their backups or other sources”? And are they doing it for cheaper than $300? If I got attacked, I’d probably pay up. “They will rebuild and recover from their backups or other sources.”Īt $300 per attack, that means only about 300 victims have paid. “Most of the organizations won’t pay,” he said. In part, that’s simply because of the logistical complications involved in paying ransom to unlock thousands of computers within the short time frame demanded by the hackers behind the WannaCry attack. Matthew Anthony, vice president of incident response at security firm Herjavec Group, said that as of Friday the total amount paid by victims to regain access to their information systems was under $100,000. The actual figure being paid to the ransomers is much less. But if you read even the third paragraph, you’ll see that that figure “includes lost productivity and the cost of conducting forensic investigations and restoration of data.” This article from CBS News is titled, “‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack losses could reach $4 billion”.
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