Experts urge victims to not pay ransoms, since it encourages criminals to continue attacking. Businesses, however, have a different mindset.
According to a new report by Kaspersky, in 88% of organizations around the world that were previously attacked by ransomware, business leaders would choose to pay a ransom if faced with another attack. At companies that had paid ransoms in the past, 97% were willing to do it again. Across organizations that have yet to be victimized, only 67% would be willing to pay. Companies hit in the past were more inclined to pay as soon as possible to get immediate access to their data (33%, compared to 15% of companies that have never been victimized), or to pay after only a couple of days of unsuccessful decrypting attempts (30% vs.
