If you are hit with a ransom attack, should you pay the ransom?
The short answer is “No”, but the longer answer is “it’s a little more complicated than that…”
Warwick Levy runs the independent fashion brand Lonely Kids Club, and when hackers hijacked the brand’s Instagram account, they also took control of its key e-commerce channel. Warwick was told he can have it back “if he did this one thing…” but the ransom demanded was a textbook case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
Anatomy of a Scam is hosted by Deborah Knight and features:
- Warwick Levy - Lonely Kids Club
- Assistant Commissioner Chris Goldsmid - AFP Cyber Operations Commander
- Nick Klein - Executive Director - Digital Forensics & Incident Response - CyberCX
- David Lacey - Managing Director, IDCARE
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