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1. Munin, Keeper of Lore (munin@mastodon.hasameli.com)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2017 18:17:05 UTC Munin, Keeper of Lore

   Alrighty. So xpost birbsite - https://twitter.com/InfoSecHotSpot/status/869618038429167618

   Folks claimed to have exfilled Disney's new pirate movie and were demanding payment to keep from releasing it - which in this case was denied.

   Thing is, though - smaller businesses could well be targeted for "we have installed stealth ransomware and will encrypt if you don't pay" type situations - how many of them would pay up?

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   • Munin, Keeper of Lore (munin@mastodon.hasameli.com)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2017 18:18:47 UTC Munin, Keeper of Lore

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     As extortion campaigns go, that would be a very low cost one - and very low risk to the operators. Even if only 0.01% of targets paid up, the typical demand payment for ransomware would more than cover the costs of such a campaign, and there'd be no need at all for actually deploying the ransomware.

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