It should come as no reprise that ransomware groups that steal a company's data and then get paid a fee to delete it don't always follow through on their promise.
The number of cases where this has happened has increased, according to a report[1] published by Coveware this week and according to several incidents shared by security researchers with ZDNet researchers over the past few months. These incidents take place only for a certain category of ransomware attacks — namely those carried out by