Sunday, December 17, 2017

Firms stockpile bitcoins to pay hackers' ransoms

The virus threatened to wipe data from thousands of computers unless a bitcoin ransom equivalent to about £230 per machine that was infected was paid. Paul Taylor, the UK head of cybersecurity at KPMG, the accountant and professional services firm, said: “Companies are definitely stockpiling bitcoin ...
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