FBI Announcement: Paying The Ransom is a Bad Idea

[Mihir :-)]

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https://blog.malwarebytes.org/security-world/2016/05/fbi-announcement-paying-the-ransom-is-a-bad-idea/

Hey Folks!

So late last year a quote was going around about a comment for the Special Agent in charge of the Cyber Intelligence program for a Boston branch of the FBI that mentioned how they advise users to just pay ransomware criminals because in many cases, getting the files back by any other method would have been impossible.

Now the FBI itself never officially made that claim and instead didn’t really give an opinion on whether or not to pay after a ransomware infection. Naked Security did a good job covering this story and despite not having an opinion, the FBI did provide many possible protection measures to avoid ransomware infection in the first place.

Well last Friday, the FBI made a decision and not only did they officially inform the world that they agree, ransomware is getting worse, but also decided to tell folks to not pay the ransom, even if you do get infected.

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[DJ Panda]

I honestly knew that it was never a good idea to pay the ransom without any security site or FBI telling me.

 

[Guest28]

When police departments in my area got attacked by ransom they told them to pay it. but when do our governments ever tell the truth?

 

[Tony Cole]

WOW they change their mind more than Obama. We could have told them this, may be we could become FBI agents

 

[jamescv7]

Ransomware and its actual ransom scenario should prevent any money covered where instead follow the proper procedure.

Sometimes when you give a money to those 'suspects', a huge problems may burst around.