{"id":14298,"date":"2026-07-15T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/the-ransomware-negotiator-who-was-working-for-the-other-side\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:04:09","slug":"the-ransomware-negotiator-who-was-working-for-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/the-ransomware-negotiator-who-was-working-for-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The ransomware negotiator who was working for the other side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The ransomware negotiator who was working for the other side<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>When a company falls victim to a ransomware attack, it is not uncommon for it to turn to experts for help.<\/p>\n<p>Specialist ransomware negotiation firms handle communications with criminal gangs on a victim&#8217;s behalf. <\/p>\n<p>What victims don&#8217;t expect is that their trusted negotiator might be separately sharing details of the victim&#8217;s cyber-insurance policy and negotiation strategy directly with the attackers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/ransomware-negotiator-working-other-side\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ransomware negotiator who was working for the other side When a company falls victim to a ransomware attack, it is not uncommon for it to turn to experts for help. Specialist ransomware negotiation firms handle communications with criminal gangs on a victim&#8217;s behalf. What victims don&#8217;t expect is that their trusted negotiator might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,155,164,258,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-14298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}