{"id":2718,"date":"2022-11-03T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2022-11-03T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:15:48","slug":"2021-ransomeware-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2021-ransomeware-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Ransomeware Payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? Treasury Department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fincen.gov\/news\/news-releases\/fincen-analysis-reveals-ransomware-reporting-bsa-filings-increased-significantly\">Financial Crimes Enforcement Network<\/a> says 2021 is indicating ransomware attack payouts totaling $1.2Billion. That&#8217;s a \u00a0188% increase\u00a0from 2020 $416 million. 2017 had $38 million. The word exponential comes to mind for the rapid increase in ransomware payouts year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The 2nd International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit led to the coalition of 36 countries and the E.U. \u00a0pledging to take additional steps\u00a0to combat ransomware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/us-banks-ransomware-surging\/635574\/\">Cybersecurity Dive | US ransomware payments surge to $1.2B in 2021: Treasury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Treasury Department\u2019s\u00a0Financial Crimes Enforcement Network says 2021 is indicating ransomware attack payouts totaling $1.2Billion. That&#8217;s a \u00a0188% increase\u00a0from 2020 $416 million. 2017 had $38 million. The word exponential comes to mind for the rapid increase in ransomware payouts year after year. Why is this important? The 2nd International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit [&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-2718","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\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}