Compliance, Sanctions & Payment Expertise
Precision when the stakes are highest
Organizations grapple with a very difficult situation when facing ransomware. Threat actors do their best to stay anonymous, and making a non-compliant payment can create legal, financial, and consequences that last long after the crisis ends. DAR keeps you in a position of power.
Clarity
Compliance
Control
Mitigating Risk Before It Multiplies
There are a number of steps that must be taken before any payment is made.
DAR specializes in ensuring ransomware payments are not just fast, but defensible. We work with clients and partners to validate threat actor identities, screen payments against international sanctions lists, and maintain open dialogue with authorities.
Getting it wrong can expose your organization to fines, penalties, or worse. Getting it right means protecting your business and reputation.
Our Payment Services
Advanced Threat Actor Attribution
Professional extortionists lie — as you would imagine. Most are sanctioned individuals or nation-state-sponsored actors posing as ransomware affiliates. DAR leverages intelligence from your partners (or ours) — uncovering identities, activities, associations, IOCs, and TTPs to confirm exactly who you’re paying, and who you shouldn’t be.
Crypto Wallet Setup & Management
When payments must be made, DAR ensures they are executed securely. Our team manages dedicated crypto wallets, facilitates immediate payments from reserves when needed, and verifies transactions so funds reach the right destination at the right time.
Sanctions & Compliance Screens
Every payment is screened against global sanctions lists—including OFAC (U.S.), Global Affairs Canada, the U.N. Security Council Consolidated List, the EU Consolidated List, and others—to prevent compliance failures and secondary violations.
Open Dialogue with Authorities
DAR maintains open communication with leading domestic and international agencies—including CISA, FBI, Secret Service, UK National Crime Agency, and NSA. These relationships help keep our clients aligned with current guidance and intelligence.
FAQs
DAR validates threat-actor identities, screens payments against international sanctions lists, and maintains open dialogue with authorities before any payment is made.
DAR maintains open communication with key domestic and international agencies, including CISA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, the UK National Crime Agency, and the NSA. These relationships help keep clients aligned with current guidance, emerging intelligence, and evolving expectations around ransomware payments.
DAR conducts advanced threat-actor attribution using its own and partner intelligence to identify who is behind an extortion demand. This includes analyzing identities, activities, associations, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). By establishing exactly who you are—and aren’t—engaging with, DAR helps ensure payments do not go to sanctioned entities and supports informed, defensible decisions about whether and how to proceed.
DAR is not a negotiator, forensic shop, or breach-coaching firm; the team focuses exclusively on compliant ransomware payments. That narrow focus, combined with experience across thousands of cases, allows them to bring deep sanctions, payment, and process expertise to the most sensitive part of an extortion event.
DAR focuses on compliant ransomware payments—partnering with breach coaches, DFIR, negotiators, insurers, and regulators for seamless integration during a cyber-extortion event.
It could, depending on your cyber insurance policy. You should check with your insurance carrier or broker for more details.
DAR is called in by DFIR providers, breach coaches, and cyber intelligence teams when victims face ransomware or digital extortion, and is trusted by leading global firms in security, law, and insurance. This ecosystem of partners reflects its role as a specialized, high-trust command center for ransomware and payment response.
Hackers are not bound by geography. So there is a chance that a threat actor could be from a place that US persons cannot transact monetarily. DAR rigorously screens forensic information to quantify your risk of sanctions exposure.
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