The Weakest Link
When the ransomware starts to encrypt your data, you do not have a lot of options. Especially, when your backups are not up to date. You might try to decrypt the compromised data, and hope that encryption is not strong enough or hackers use the same encryption key all the time. However, that is quite unlikely. Even if you pay the ransom, there is no guarantee that hackers would give you the key after they got their money and they will not share your data with the rest of the world. Is there honor among thieves? Maybe…
December 2, 2020
