{"id":2350,"date":"2021-10-21T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2021-10-21T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:33:52","slug":"600-m-in-ransoms-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/600-m-in-ransoms-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"$600+ M in ransoms paid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Financial firms identified $600Million in ransoms paid for ransomeware attacks. U.S. Department of Treasury investigators say it identified $5.2 Billion in bitcoin transactions that appear to be ransom payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The escalation is a critical infrastructure security threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Treasury conclusion is that &#8221;\u00a0private sector has collectively failed so far to take sufficient steps to protect against attacks&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/suspected-ransomware-payments-for-first-half-of-2021-total-590-million-11634308503?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1\">Wall Street Journal | Suspected Ransomware Payments Nearly Doubled This Year, Treasury Says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Financial firms identified $600Million in ransoms paid for ransomeware attacks. U.S. Department of Treasury investigators say it identified $5.2 Billion in bitcoin transactions that appear to be ransom payments. Why is this important? The escalation is a critical infrastructure security threat. How will this be important? Treasury conclusion is that &#8221;\u00a0private sector has [&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-2350","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\/2350","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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}