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> 1. Risk: low (so few companies get hacked)

I wonder how much that's still true now that ransomware has apparently become viable.

Finding an insecure target, setup the data hostage situation, have the victim come to pay is scalable and could work in volume. If getting small money from a range of small targets becomes profitable, small fishes will bear sinilar risks to juicier targets.




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