Damage Inflicted
Mike Parkin is an engineer at Vulcan Cyber.
“With pseudo ransomware, the files are effectively wiped,” he said. “With ransomware, if the attackers are ‘being honorable’ then paying the ransom will get the victim’s files back. The disruption is effectively the same, though ransomware has a paid route to recovery.”
“Superficially, the damage is the same [as ransomware], the unavailability of the system and its underlying data,” Bambenek said. “The only difference is that the malware offers no path of recovery besides restoring from backups.”
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