[Scoundreller]

It can at a technical level but not at a legal level.

Your BigCo accounting department is not going to be very understanding about acquiring cryptocurrency to send to ??? for a ransom.

[dylan604]

Isn't this why in other comments people have said that companies use third parties to pay the ransom rather than paying directly?

[Scoundreller]

That’s my theory too. Setting up payments to a new vendor is hard enough even for the most legitimate.

An org’s Net30 terms aren’t going to work here…