[bawolff]

I assune you have to be pretty incompetent to be damaged by randsomware. It cant hurt you if you have backups, and i dont understand how you could run a major company without backups.

[philprx]

Taking down a system to reflash it with backups can take significant time that translates often in big companies to 10x-100x the ransom cost.

That's also why there are tensions between big companies / victims and law enforcement agencies because they have divergent interests: keeping the business running vs prosecuting and blocking criminals

Did you give data protection job a go? They're heavily recruiting people who can really make a difference. But it looks often easier than it is ;-)

[nitrogen]

The ransomware hurts if the ransom is to keep the hackers from posting your documents.

[bawolff]

Maybe, but is that the situation that the fuss is about. That sort of scenario surely doesn't involve a business shutdown.