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> I helped to recover my nearby hospital as a volunteer when it was ransomwared. How did they prevent threat actors presenting themselves as volunteers, were y
by feynmanalgo 1y ago
> I helped to recover my nearby hospital as a volunteer when it was ransomwared.
How did they prevent threat actors presenting themselves as volunteers, were you vetted?
- zulban 1y agoA real person showing up is a huge cost and risk. No threat actor will continue an attack on just a hospital like that. The economics make no sense and any money is already extracted. Ransomware shops are very happy to just shotgun the internet from afar. A far bigger risk is accepting incompetent volunteers if anything.
- feynmanalgo 1y agoI didn't say anything about original attacker continuing the attack.
- stavros 1y agoThe same answer still applies: That attack vector doesn't have a positive ROI.
- BrandoElFollito 1y agoThe nature of my work helped to quickly sort that out