Bargaining, legalities, stress, research, cunning, and more. All in a day's work for a ransomware negotiator...
The first rule of being a ransomware negotiator is that you don't admit you're a ransomware negotiator — at least not to LockBit or another cybercrime gang.
"The biggest reason is because most ransomware groups specifically and explicitly say: 'We don't want to work with a negotiator. If you do bring a negotiator to the table, we're just going to post your stuff anyway,'" Schmitt toldRansomware is, of course, malware that once on a network scrambles all the valuable files it can find, and demands a payment to decrypt and restore the information.
Schmitt said he has, on two occasions, negotiated ransoms down to zero dollars."Both in different kinds of healthcare, that when we went to the table and said, 'Hey, we're a healthcare organization. We're responsible for saving lives,' they basically said, 'We're sorry. We're going to give you a free decryptor.
Back in the day, circa 2019, these negotiations happened via email.
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