US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
Why not make it a crime to pay the ransom demand for cryptolocker attacks? This way the flow of money to these gangsters will stop.If you get hit with a cryptolocker and you have no backup you simply lose that data. Or you can pay the ransom, get your data back and go to jail.While this might seem unfair, it might stop 1000 other attacks because there will be no money in it. It would be for the greater good.