{"id":1445,"date":"2021-05-11T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/russian-speaking-cyber-gang-threatens-release-of-washington-police-data\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:20:59","slug":"russian-speaking-cyber-gang-threatens-release-of-washington-police-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/russian-speaking-cyber-gang-threatens-release-of-washington-police-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian-speaking cyber gang threatens release of Washington police data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Babuk group says it will release data unless police raise price<\/li>\n<li>Extortion threat comes amid separate US ransomware attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington DC police department says negotiations over payment have broken down and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more money is not offered.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/23\/gchq-chief-west-faces-moment-of-reckoning-over-cybersecurity\">GCHQ chief: west faces \u2018moment of reckoning\u2019 over cybersecurity<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/11\/washington-police-hack-russian-speaking-babuk-gang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c7d042d2a82cd781606598ae314c99c0f451adf6\/0_128_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=be14e5dc48a348dd9ea9857519824ba4\" title=\"Russian-speaking cyber gang threatens release of Washington police data\" \/>Babuk group says it will release data unless police raise price<br \/>\nExtortion threat comes amid separate US ransomware attack<\/p>\n<p>A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington DC police department says negotiations over payment have broken down and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more money is not offered.<br \/>\n Related: GCHQ chief: west faces \u2018moment of reckoning\u2019 over cybersecurity  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babuk group says it will release data unless police raise price Extortion threat comes amid separate US ransomware attack A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington DC police department says negotiations over payment have broken down and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more money is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/russian-speaking-cyber-gang-threatens-release-of-washington-police-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian-speaking cyber gang threatens release of Washington police data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}