{"id":36013,"date":"2021-06-04T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36013"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:55:05","slug":"fbi-director-draws-parallels-between-ransomware-attacks-and-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36013","title":{"rendered":"FBI director draws &#8216;parallels&#8217; between ransomware attacks and 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray is compared the increasing ransomware hacks on critical U.S. companies to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of parallels, there\u2019s a lot of importance, and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vkrmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzffyjfhy_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vkrmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzffyjfhy_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCaRbr7q4RzCyMZKRKyOGIHq2cQg\">Wray told The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0in an article published Friday. \u201cThere\u2019s a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector and even the average American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wray told the Journal that his agency is investigating around 100 types of ransomware, pointing to Russia as the origin for many of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Wray\u2019s comments came in the wake of multiple high-profile ransomware attacks, including one earlier this week on JBS USA, the largest supplier of beef in the nation, which forced all its U.S. facilities to shut down for a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray is compared&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36014,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36013\/revisions\/36014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}