{"id":36312,"date":"2021-06-11T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36312"},"modified":"2021-06-11T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:02:04","slug":"oversight-chair-presses-jbs-over-payment-to-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36312","title":{"rendered":"Oversight chair presses JBS over payment to hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee is pressing JBS USA to explain why it paid $11 million in ransom to a criminal group earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rnwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrjnvgw_vyffhhpvpnfgvpkkmrgf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rnwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrjnvgw_vyffhhpvpnfgvpkkmrgf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623549453942000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyydz65m6Q3ZwLOKyW0BkOQL3HwQ\">a letter<\/a>\u00a0released Friday, Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qsphyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwnsfgd_vyffhhpvpnfgvpkkmrgf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qsphyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwnsfgd_vyffhhpvpnfgvpkkmrgf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623549453942000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsN6ZfBqWg7iF19tD_zSJ5ioBAww\">Carolyn Maloney<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.Y.) asked JBS chief executive Andre Nogueira to turn over all documents related to the ransomware attack and records of its communications with REvil, the group the FBI believes to be responsible, by June 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply troubled by this and similar ransomware attacks,\u201d Maloney wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny ransom payment to cybercriminal actors like REvil sets a dangerous precedent that increases the risk of future ransomware attacks. Congress needs detailed information about the attack to legislate effectively on ransomware and cybersecurity in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairwoman of the House Oversight&#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":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36312","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=36312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36313,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36312\/revisions\/36313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}