{"id":2344,"date":"2021-10-14T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2021-10-15T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:10:28","slug":"aggravated-criminal-charges-for-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/aggravated-criminal-charges-for-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggravated Criminal Charges for Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Australia and Oklahoma have something in common- an intent to increase criminal penalties for ransomware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Australia&#8217;s approach is to create a stand alone aggravated charge for ransomware. Also included is a notification requirement for businesses that pay more than $10million in ransom per year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? We&#8217;re seeing both of these approaches in the U.S. IN Congress we have a notification for any ransom paid being bandied about and Oklahoma passed a bill specifically criminalizing ransomware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeaffairs.gov.au\/cyber-security-subsite\/files\/ransomware-action-plan.pdf\">Australia Ransomware Action Plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australias-new-ransomware-plan-to-create-ransomware-offences-and-reporting-regime\/\">ZDNet | Australia&#8217;s new ransomware plan to create ransomware offences and reporting regime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Australia and Oklahoma have something in common- an intent to increase criminal penalties for ransomware. Why is this important? Australia&#8217;s approach is to create a stand alone aggravated charge for ransomware. Also included is a notification requirement for businesses that pay more than $10million in ransom per year. How will this be important? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}