Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

Fri Jun 25 21:33:40 UTC 2021

fre. 25. jun. 2021 21.33 skrev Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 10:43 AM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:
>
>> Incompetent insurance companies combined with incompetent IT staff and
>>> under-funded IT departments are the nexus of the problem.
>>>
>>
>> Nah, it's even simpler. It's just dollars all around. Always is.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>> From this company's point of view, the cost to RECOVER from the problems
>> is so much smaller than it would be to prevent the problems from happening
>> to begin with, so they are happy to let you guys handle it. From the
>> insurance company's point of view, they are collecting premiums, but no
>> claims are being filed, so they have no incentive to do anything
>> differently.
>>
>
> I'm sure that'll change drastically if either of these conditions are true:
> * A claim is filed
> * An audit is required
> * Ransomware surges throughout 2021 and payouts go through the roof
>
> I think it's reasonable to expect at least one of those things will happen
> in the next year.
>
> -A
>

Or they do business in the EU where huge fines are becoming the norm. The
ransomware does not matter but the implied data breach does.
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