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126: REvil

Darknet Diaries

CHAPTER

Is There a Way to Stop Ransomware?

Companies are still paying in a big way, which incentivizes ransomware crews to keep at it. There's no guarantee these companies won't get reinfected the next day and have to pay it all again. The best idea is to have good backups that you can restore rapidly. But our evil knew this so they purposely looked for how systems got backed up before wiping them out.

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