"A future in which ransomware and mass data theft are so ubiquitous they’ve worked their way into our daily lives"
>>> True
"The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency"
>>> False
>>> True
"The singular reason why these attacks are even possible is due entirely to rise of cryptocurrency"
>>> False
> literally blood money
("Blood money" is an idiom, a colloquial metaphor. So a virtual currency is "literally" a metaphor? Ugh.)
There's a reason that ransomware payments are now exclusively transferred through Bitcoin.
Doesn't change anything
It is becoming more and more evident that ransomware attacks are the killer app of crypto.
Illegal activities were always the killer app. I doubt bitcoin would be where it is today without the silk road sites.
But then it's not really ransomware anymore.