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paid-themselves··on Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
So...

How do we know that they (MonsterCloud) weren't also the criminals on the other side of the bitcoin transaction?

Is it possible this was all a giant payola/extortion ring?

I mean, the criminals were just that reliable, organized and scrupulous about unlocking their victims?