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Ransomware Victims Rarely Pay The Full Ransom Price

F-Secure conducted an experiment to evaluate what it described as the “customer experience” associated with five crypto-ransomware samples. The criminals behind three of the five ransomware families were willing to negotiate on the ransom amount when asked. Jigsaw, Cerber, Cryptomix, Shade, and TorrentLocker had the highest initial ransom amount at around $2,000. The FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received more than 7,700 complaints involving ransomware.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ransomware-victims-rarely-pay-the-full-ransom-price

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