re: Baton Rouge General hit by serious malware/ransomware attack?

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You sound like you know a bit about this.

Do these people ever get caught? What sorts of efforts are ever taken to find them? Is it completely futile?

I'm guessing much of this is emanating internationally, but I'd think there has got to be SOME WAY to start policing it, no?

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You can report it to the FBI, but unless it's part of some large operation that affects a few large influential companies, they're not likely going to get caught. Most of it is likely coming from international parties. I won't even use the word "hackers" because that would imply there's some skill involved. Some 15 year old kid with little hacking skill these days can buy a ransomware package and target just about anyone. All it takes is 1 naive user to click a legit looking link. Targets are usually not hard to find based on how much people like to publicly live their lives in social media and post their places of employment,etc. If you wanted to target an executive of a company? No problem there as well. Most companies publish their leadership by name on their public company website.