A Task force out there to help try to curve Ransomware

Hello folks,

I read this article that came out on Krebs on Security that talks about a task force and an 81 page report that hopes to have some idea on how to curve the ransomware problem we’ve faced in quite large numbers.

The linked article links to a Wall Street Journal report that the Department of Justice also formed their own task force to try and curve this problem. Also, according to the article, the DOJ calls for strategies that target the entire criminal ecosystem. We need to send a message to say what the Shadow has said in every program. That is: “Crime does not pay.” I like that saying and I hope that this pays off.

According to Emsisoft, a security company, almost 2400 U.S. based governments, healthcare and schools were targeted in 2020 alone.That’s a lot! We’ve covered a lot of school coverage as of late, and I think I might have said something about this when I found out that a college I had attended for free classes was effected by Ransomware.

Find something in the article you want to bring up? Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments is the article, and do give it a look!

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