The widespread use of ransomware by cybercriminals to make vast sums of money is leading to insurance companies considering whether covering ransomware payouts as part of cyber insurance makes economic sense.
Cybercriminals are constantly searching for more reliable methods to make organisations pay the ransom fee once they have encrypted files on the victim’s network, perhaps by targeting and destroying data backups first, or by stealing sensitive information and threatening to release it.
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