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Pay, fight, or stall? The dilemma of ransomware negotiations - Help Net Security (www.helpnetsecurity.com)

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As someone else said, Prevent is also an option (which would include backup in my opinion).

Though backups can get encrypted too, if it's not setup to prevent this.

Prevent, in my opinion, is the path.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Fair, backups can be done for all sorts of purposes. In my opinion tho, they should be airgapped