New law in Australia will require mandatory reporting of ransomware payments
https://therecord.media/australia-bill-mandatory-reporting-ransomware-payments
@therecord_media This is good (providing more visibility to the problem), provided that (a) ransom payments are not banned and (b) the government manages to keep the information private.
Unfortunately, I suspect that this is just the first step towards violating (a) and that (b) will fail too, on the presumption that the government is incompetent.