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1. Is data theft the main risk of ransomware?

2. Why would anyone trust a ransomware perpetrator to honor a deal to not reveal or exploit data upon receipt of a single ransom payment? Are organizations really going to let themselves be blackmailed for an indefinite period of time?

3. I'm unconvinced that crowdstrike will reliably prevent sensitive data exfiltration.




1. Double extortion is the norm, some groups don't even bother with the encryption part anymore, they just ask a ransom for not leaking the data

2. Appearently yes. Why do you think calls to ban payments exist?

3. At minimum it raises the bar for the hackers - sure, it's not like you can't bypass edr but it's much easier if you don't have to bypass it at all because it's not there




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