ScienceVeteran Hacker Reveals Most Terrifying Dark Web Encounters After 30 Years Online

“The bigger payouts that we’re talking about now are easily into the tens of millions. This last, most recent attack, they offered $70 million for the campaign key, which is the key that would have unlocked every single computer encrypted during that attack. So we’re talking high-stakes games here.”

That’s a rather insane number, and it demonstrates that ransomware assaults are large, well-planned, and much more frightening than smaller, specialised crimes.