If your business falls victim to ransomware and you want simple advice on whether to pay the criminals, don’t expect much help from the U.S. government. The answer is most often some form of “it depends.”
“It is the position of the U.S. government that we strongly discourage the payment of ransoms,” Eric Goldstein, a top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, told a congressional hearing last week.
But paying isn’t against the law. Refusing to pay the ransom would also surely send many companies under.
So what, exactly, is the government doing about it?
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