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Why Victims Should Avoid Extortion Payment to Ransomware Operators at All Costs?

January 24, 2019Simeon Georgiev

Barring state-sponsored attacks, the sole objective of ransomware operators is to rip off victims by asking extortion for providing decrypter for locked down files. In today’s age of extensive digitization, data has become a valuable commodity. This is the reason why many ransomware victims have to resort to extortion payments to recover their data.

Ransomware removal experts and law enforcement agencies always advise against the payment of ransom to the attackers for data recovery. There are multiple reasons why ransom payment to cryptovirological operators is not a wise decision and thus must be avoided at all costs.

No Guarantee of Getting the Solution

Every ransomware operator guarantees to provide complete decryption of the locked down files. However, there is no value of a guarantee given by the criminals.  For that matter, it is not a wise choice to give your money to criminals operating with fake or no names. Moreover, in many cases, rookie cryptovirological operators have only broken decryption keys that don’t even unlock half of the files.

So, instead of arranging extortion amount, the better way to deal with cryptovirological infection is to go for professional ransomware removal services.

Encouragement of Cybercriminals

Paying ransomware operators the demanded money means you are inadvertently encouraging their activity. With successful skimming of extortion amount from the affected users, the attackers are encouraged to step up their game. Higher ransom payment ratios also persuade other cybercriminals to foray into ransomware domain.  

Instead of playing into the hands of attackers to get the key for ransomware removal, rely on the expertise of professionals. Ransomware removal experts dedicatedly work to come up with decryption of each and every new ransomware strain.

Also, make regular data backups to tone down the damages of any successful ransomware attack.

Simeon Georgiev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simeon--georgiev/
I am a Cyber Security Enthusiast from Bulgaria. I like to write about malware and ransomware and global cyber attacks. You can reach me on Twitter @sgeorgiev1995 or Email: simeon10georgiev@gmail.com
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