{"id":37888,"date":"2021-07-20T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37888"},"modified":"2021-07-20T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:00:46","slug":"incoming-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37888","title":{"rendered":"INCOMING INVESTIGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) on Tuesday announced the launch of a bipartisan investigation into the recent string of debilitating ransomware attacks against U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation will examine how cryptocurrencies are used in ransomware attacks to exploit victims. Ransoms are often demanded in the form of cryptocurrency, which is harder to trace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increased use of cryptocurrencies as the preferred method of payment in ransomware attacks shows that cybercriminals believe they can commit attacks without being held accountable,\u201d Peters said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cThese attacks can have a devastating effect on Americans\u2019 lives and livelihoods, and we must do everything we can to deter them \u2013 including understanding what additional regulations, actions and reforms are needed to adequately tackle complicated cybersecurity threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs&#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-37888","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\/37888","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=37888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37889,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37888\/revisions\/37889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}