{"id":47,"date":"2016-05-01T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.media-moon.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-09-15T09:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:07:53","slug":"fbi-incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/fbi-incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Incidents Of Ransomware On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ransomware-key-500-1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"ransomware-key-500-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ransomware-key-500-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ransomware-key-500-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ransomware-key-500-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With <span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">incidents\u202c<\/span> of <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/ransomware?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10153453960110919\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a\u200e<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"_58cm\">ransomware\u202c<\/span> <\/a>on the rise, be sure to <span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">secure\u202c<\/span> your<span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a \u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">computers\u202c<\/span> and other devices. We can assist. <a href=\"http:\/\/media-moon.com\/#contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact us<\/a>, if help is needed.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director James Trainor <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230724095630\/https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise\/incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">states<\/a>, &#8220;There\u2019s no one method or tool that will completely protect you or your organization from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ransomware <\/a>attack, but contingency and remediation planning is crucial to business recovery and continuity &#8211; and these plans should be tested regularly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Be sure you trust the person that you&#8217;re receiving the email from, if it has\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">attachments.<br \/>\n\u2022 Patch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operating system<\/a>, software, and firmware on digital devices (which may be made easier through a centralized patch management system).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>We can assist. <a href=\"http:\/\/media-moon.com\/#contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact us<\/a>, if help is needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230724095630\/https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise\/incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/\u2026\/i\u2026\/incidents-of-ransomware-on-the-rise<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With \u202a\u200eincidents\u202c of \u202a\u200eransomware\u202c on the rise, be sure to \u202a\u200esecure\u202c your\u202a \u200ecomputers\u202c and other devices. We can assist. Contact us, if help is needed. As\u00a0FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director James Trainor states, &#8220;There\u2019s no one method or tool that will completely protect you or your organization from a ransomware attack, but contingency and remediation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[77,29,18,155,17,101,90,45,85,25,46,35],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-security","tag-computer-security","tag-computers","tag-data","tag-data-breach","tag-data-loss","tag-data-security","tag-fbi","tag-malware","tag-personal-data","tag-protect-your-data","tag-ransomware","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}