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!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.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.