After a ransomware incident , here is what one company said - “We paid the ransom, and it sucked”.

(This company did not the meaning for the element "A" in CIA Triad?

“When they encrypt the data, that happens really fast,”, “When they gave us the keys to decrypt it, things didn’t go quite as cleanly”.

Smart people learn from other's mistakes. Are you ready to learn from these guys.

Experts say attacks like the one against Apex HCM are playing out across the world every day, and have turned into a billion-dollar business for cyber thieves. The biggest group of victims are professional services firms

Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the process of restoring service to customers.



https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/02/payroll-provider-gives-extortionists-a-payday/