Comment by perlgeek
5 years ago
> but I'm not sure anyone has the resources, political will and the national interest right now.
Well, this will change if/when ransomware attacks are becoming a big enough issue to noticeably impact the economy, health care, or something else that politicians and voters care about.
I'm not an IT security expert, but I do think we are now observing an increased industrialization of ransomware. Some crews specialize in initial attack vectors, and sell them to others who specialize in the lateral movement, and then those resell fully compromised systems to specialists that do the actual ransomware and payment.
If this trend continues, countries will be forced to take this far more seriously than they do it now.
Well sure, but all the potential choices have serious problems. American corporations have participated in weakening the government to the point where it's not capable, nor trusted, to do it. The EU may not have the cohesion, and they may not be able to get buy-in, since (I suspect) this will have to be a thing the Germans push hard for. The UK leaving the Union only throws another wrench in Europe being a solution to the problem. China and Russia's interests are aligned with preventing such a thing from happening globally.