The No More Ransom Project
> When [you are infected with ransomware], you can’t get to the data unless you pay a ransom. However this is not guaranteed and you should never pay!<p>What bothers me about their advice is that it is only correct macroeconomically. For your particular case it could be the best solution to just pay - as even police departments have done before.<p>It also ignores that it is in cybercriminals' best interest to let you decrypt after you paid: They need their victims to trust them, and they have nothing to gain from keeping the files encrypted after payment.