[londons_explore]

I wonder how many of these "white hat middlemen" are also the ransomware owners...

Obviously the two companies collaborating would give benefits to eachother, and it might just be a convenient way to seperate the illegal from the legal...

[elliekelly]

This was my first thought as well. What’s the biggest risk when you’re paying the ransom? That the thief will run off with the bitcoin without providing the key. The easiest way to mitigate that risk is to either collaborate with the thieves or become the thieves.

[TheOperator]

Bet they run the Antivirus companies too! It's all a racket!