US-led alliance of 40 countries pledges never to pay ransom to cybercriminals

By Christopher Hutton

Published October 31, 2023 3:59pm ET

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US-led alliance of 40 countries pledges never to pay ransom to cybercriminals — A ransomware demand for the payment of $300 worth of bitcoin sits on the screen of an Apple Inc. Macbook Air laptop infected by the 'Petya' computer virus inside an electronics store in Kiev, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. | (Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg)

A collective of 40 countries, led by the United States, intends to sign a pledge never to pay ransoms to cybercriminals to combat the growing threat.

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