{"id":1737,"date":"2021-06-04T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/fbi-director-sees-parallels-between-ransomware-threat-and-9-11\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:51:39","slug":"fbi-director-sees-parallels-between-ransomware-threat-and-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/fbi-director-sees-parallels-between-ransomware-threat-and-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI director sees \u2018parallels\u2019 between ransomware threat and 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Wray also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of ransomware cyber-attacks<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has compared a recent string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/cybercrime\">cyber-attacks<\/a> on US government and corporate entities to defense difficulties presented by the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wray, the FBI director, also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/13\/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-cyber-crime\">ransomware<\/a>, with many tracing back to criminal operators in Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/04\/fbi-christopher-wray-cyberattacks-9-11\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/72b87715f1d8c22739c751306dade3a9fd08c8bb\/0_112_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=37a086f2f73b3903257c277e8291989f\" title=\"FBI director sees \u2018parallels\u2019 between ransomware threat and 9\/11\" \/>Christopher Wray also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of ransomware cyber-attacks<br \/>\nThe FBI has compared a recent string of cyber-attacks on US government and corporate entities to defense difficulties presented by the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<br \/>\nChristopher Wray, the FBI director, also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of ransomware, with many tracing back to criminal operators in Russia. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Wray also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of ransomware cyber-attacks The FBI has compared a recent string of cyber-attacks on US government and corporate entities to defense difficulties presented by the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. Christopher Wray, the FBI director, also revealed that the agency is investigating about 100 kinds of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/fbi-director-sees-parallels-between-ransomware-threat-and-9-11\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI director sees \u2018parallels\u2019 between ransomware threat and 9\/11<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1738,"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\/1737"}],"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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}