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4 ways ransomware can cost your business (in addition to extortion)

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Presumably this has to do with whether a target had readily available backups, and lost time due to back and forth with extortionists or time spent making a payment. Were a cybercriminal to compromise a trusted supplier to distribute ransomware, rather than for surveillance as in that attack, the costs could be enormous.