Should we pay the ransom?
That is a business and legal decision, and law-enforcement agencies advise against paying: it funds the attackers, does not guarantee that the files come back or that stolen data is deleted, and paying a sanctioned group can be illegal. Decide with your incident-response provider, your insurer and your lawyers, and report the incident to the police and, where it applies, to your CSIRTCSIRT: computer security incident response team. The national team to which serious incidents are reported.. NetSenX does not negotiate or restore data; it helps you see earlier what the attackers did on the network.
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- CSIRT (computer security incident response team)
- The national team to which serious incidents are reported.