{"id":21373,"date":"2025-12-29T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/why-should-we-pay-these-criminals-the-hidden-world-of-ransomware-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:37:21","slug":"why-should-we-pay-these-criminals-the-hidden-world-of-ransomware-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/why-should-we-pay-these-criminals-the-hidden-world-of-ransomware-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why should we pay these criminals?\u2019: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider <\/p>\n<p>They call it \u201cstopping the bleeding\u201d: the vital window to prevent an entire database from being ransacked by criminals or a production line grinding to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>When a call comes into the cybersecurity firm S-RM, headquartered on Whitechapel High Street in east London, a hacked business or institution may have just minutes to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/29\/ransomware-negotiations-extortion-cyber-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6951203ead30f3218ee1c5b13c35cf57f7ecb4e9\/165_0_4563_3650\/master\/4563.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4683ef08b87a8d3f06fc580f7e0fea83\" title=\"\u2018Why should we pay these criminals?\u2019: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations\" \/>Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider<br \/>\nThey call it \u201cstopping the bleeding\u201d: the vital window to prevent an entire database from being ransacked by criminals or a production line grinding to a halt.<br \/>\nWhen a call comes into the cybersecurity firm S-RM, headquartered on Whitechapel High Street in east London, a hacked business or institution may have just minutes to protect themselves. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider They call it \u201cstopping the bleeding\u201d: the vital window to prevent an entire database from being ransacked by criminals or a production line grinding to a halt. When a call comes into the cybersecurity firm S-RM, headquartered on Whitechapel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/why-should-we-pay-these-criminals-the-hidden-world-of-ransomware-negotiations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Why should we pay these criminals?\u2019: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}