{"id":4645,"date":"2022-02-05T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T09:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/how-the-growing-russian-ransomware-threat-is-costing-companies-dear\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T09:36:22","slug":"how-the-growing-russian-ransomware-threat-is-costing-companies-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/how-the-growing-russian-ransomware-threat-is-costing-companies-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"How the growing Russian ransomware threat is costing companies dear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With KP Snacks the latest cyber-attack victim, firms must learn to defend themselves against a mounting menace<\/p>\n<p>The January snow lay thick on the Moscow ground, as masked officers of the FSB \u2013 Russia\u2019s fearsome security agency \u2013 prepared to smash down the doors at one of 25 addresses they would raid that day.<\/p>\n<p>Their target was REvil, a shadowy conclave of hackers that claimed to have stolen more than $100m (\u00a374m) a year through \u201cransomware\u201d attacks, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jul\/13\/ransomware-gang-revils-websites-become-unreachable\">suddenly disappearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/05\/how-the-growing-russian-ransomware-threat-is-costing-companies-dear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5cf09f3ef10857b41790b641bae04b7d5a0022f6\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1dc6f6f37e34f0f248c511b9f7b42626\" title=\"How the growing Russian ransomware threat is costing companies dear\" \/>With KP Snacks the latest cyber-attack victim, firms must learn to defend themselves against a mounting menace<br \/>\nThe January snow lay thick on the Moscow ground, as masked officers of the FSB \u2013 Russia\u2019s fearsome security agency \u2013 prepared to smash down the doors at one of 25 addresses they would raid that day.<br \/>\nTheir target was REvil, a shadowy conclave of hackers that claimed to have stolen more than $100m (\u00a374m) a year through \u201cransomware\u201d attacks, before suddenly disappearing. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With KP Snacks the latest cyber-attack victim, firms must learn to defend themselves against a mounting menace The January snow lay thick on the Moscow ground, as masked officers of the FSB \u2013 Russia\u2019s fearsome security agency \u2013 prepared to smash down the doors at one of 25 addresses they would raid that day. Their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/how-the-growing-russian-ransomware-threat-is-costing-companies-dear\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the growing Russian ransomware threat is costing companies dear<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4646,"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\/4645"}],"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=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}