Ransomware operators want to spend as little time as possible within your systems, which means the encryption they use is shoddy and frequently corrupts your data.
As a result, paying ransoms is typically a more expensive chore than simply refusing to pay and working from our own backups.
That is the perspective of Richard Addiscott, a senior director analyst at Gartner.
“They encrypt at an extremely fast rate,” he said on Monday at the firm’s IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies Conference 2023 in Sydney. “They encrypt faster than you can run a directory listing.”
Therefore, ransomware creators use poor encryption techniques and end up losing some of the data they later try to sell you.
If ransomware operators deliver all the data they claim, Addiscott said, it is not simple to restore from corrupt data dumps delivered by criminals. Many people don’t; instead, they start a new round of discussions regarding the cost of more releases by demanding a ransom.
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