{"id":1891,"date":"2021-06-17T10:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/how-remote-work-opened-the-floodgates-to-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:46:21","slug":"how-remote-work-opened-the-floodgates-to-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/how-remote-work-opened-the-floodgates-to-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"How remote work opened the floodgates to ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With workers outside the \u2018castle walls\u2019 of their companies, criminals have it easier \u2013 and cryptocurrency hasn\u2019t helped<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware has roared into the headlines in recent weeks after criminal hacking networks,<strong> <\/strong>tentatively<strong> <\/strong>linked to Russia, launched attacks on the major US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jun\/10\/worlds-biggest-meat-producer-jbs-pays-11m-cybercrime-ransom\">meat packing plant JBS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/19\/colonial-pipeline-cyber-attack-ransom\">the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden and his administration are scrambling to address the growing threat, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericgeller\/status\/1405217930397290496\">pressing Vladimir Putin<\/a> in a highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday to take action against the rise of ransomware attacks. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1405215438917750786\">said he gave Putin<\/a> a list of 16 areas \u2013 mostly in critical infrastructure &#8211; that are \u201coff limits\u201d for cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/17\/ransomware-working-from-home-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c5764814dab1fb87cefe2cdddfda25daf66d6075\/0_0_4511_2708\/master\/4511.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0aa35bdfffa2be07ca3a0fddb837b81c\" title=\"How remote work opened the floodgates to ransomware\" \/>With workers outside the \u2018castle walls\u2019 of their companies, criminals have it easier \u2013 and cryptocurrency hasn\u2019t helped<br \/>\nRansomware has roared into the headlines in recent weeks after criminal hacking networks, tentatively linked to Russia, launched attacks on the major US meat packing plant JBS and the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline.<br \/>\nJoe Biden and his administration are scrambling to address the growing threat, pressing Vladimir Putin in a highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday to take action against the rise of ransomware attacks. Biden said he gave Putin a list of 16 areas \u2013 mostly in critical infrastructure &#8211; that are \u201coff limits\u201d for cyberattacks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With workers outside the \u2018castle walls\u2019 of their companies, criminals have it easier \u2013 and cryptocurrency hasn\u2019t helped Ransomware has roared into the headlines in recent weeks after criminal hacking networks, tentatively linked to Russia, launched attacks on the major US meat packing plant JBS and the nation\u2019s largest fuel pipeline. Joe Biden and his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/how-remote-work-opened-the-floodgates-to-ransomware\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How remote work opened the floodgates to ransomware<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1892,"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\/1891"}],"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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}