Gentlemen, the reason behind the recent bitcoin pump can finally be shared
Companies Are Stockpiling Bitcoin to Pay Off CybercriminalsA small survey by corporate networking company Citrix indicates that some IT professionals are even stockpiling bitcoins so they can pay up quickly in the event ransomware strikes their network. Out of 250 IT and security workers at U.K. companies with more than 250 employees, a third said they were stockpiling the currency. A researcher at Cornell recently tweeted that the universitys treasurer created an account with the Bitcoin exchange Coinbase so as to be ready if ransomware struck.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601643/companies-are-stockpiling-bitcoin-to-pay-off-cybercriminals/Yeah right..... This is one thing that they can do, but probably a better thing that they can do is to spend some money to improve the security and vulnerabilities of their computer systems.