{"id":1491,"date":"2021-05-14T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/how-the-colonial-pipeline-hack-is-part-of-a-growing-ransomware-trend-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:56:54","slug":"how-the-colonial-pipeline-hack-is-part-of-a-growing-ransomware-trend-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/how-the-colonial-pipeline-hack-is-part-of-a-growing-ransomware-trend-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Colonial Pipeline hack is part of a growing ransomware trend in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber criminals have attacked solar power firms, water treatment plants and police departments in attempts to extort money<\/p>\n<p>The wider American public was afforded an unwanted glimpse into the Wild West world of ransomware this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/08\/colonial-pipeline-cyber-attack-shutdown\">after a cyber attack crippled Colonial Pipeline<\/a>, causing fuel shortages across the eastern seaboard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/371753\">states of emergency <\/a>to be declared in four states.<\/p>\n<p>But experts warn that ransomware attacks \u2013 which are part-ransom, part-blackmail, part-invocation of squatters\u2019 rights \u2013 are becoming more frequent, while the mostly Russia-based hackers are growing more sophisticated with their methods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/13\/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-cyber-crime\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/162caa6b66438aa6a4247972e58bc61d99b534a5\/0_80_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4fb3fff08f53f3dc163335679b433952\" title=\"How the Colonial Pipeline hack is part of a growing ransomware trend in the US\" \/>Cyber criminals have attacked solar power firms, water treatment plants and police departments in attempts to extort money<br \/>\nThe wider American public was afforded an unwanted glimpse into the Wild West world of ransomware this week, after a cyber attack crippled Colonial Pipeline, causing fuel shortages across the eastern seaboard and states of emergency to be declared in four states.<br \/>\nBut experts warn that ransomware attacks \u2013 which are part-ransom, part-blackmail, part-invocation of squatters\u2019 rights \u2013 are becoming more frequent, while the mostly Russia-based hackers are growing more sophisticated with their methods. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber criminals have attacked solar power firms, water treatment plants and police departments in attempts to extort money The wider American public was afforded an unwanted glimpse into the Wild West world of ransomware this week, after a cyber attack crippled Colonial Pipeline, causing fuel shortages across the eastern seaboard and states of emergency to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/how-the-colonial-pipeline-hack-is-part-of-a-growing-ransomware-trend-in-the-us\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the Colonial Pipeline hack is part of a growing ransomware trend in the US<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1492,"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\/1491"}],"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=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}