Incident Response: Pay a Ransom, Go to Jail

Companies that find their files, data or networks locked by a malicious actor demanding an extortion payment now have a new worry in their incident response: The U.S. Department of Treasury. On Oct. 1, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) issued an advisory warning companies affected by ransomware that paying ransom could..

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