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UK to ban ransomware payments by public sector organizations
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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There was a time where ransomware groups would decrypt your files if you paid up. Which was often cheaper than restoring an old backup or not having any
At some point, groups started not "honoring" the decryption promise. Which made everything a lot more uncertain