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Friday, June 04, 2021

FBI Classifies Ransomware

I mentioned the FBI recently, that given all all the resources we provide them, they should be able to 'solve', or at least make far less dangerous the curse of Ransomware.  I see that they now classified RW into about 100 types. See below.   Not sure that is very productive.   Often you can tell progress that people are making by looking at the kinds of classifications they produce.  So ...  ?

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Wall Street Journal that the agency is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many of which trace back to actors in Russia.  in Reuters

In the interview published on Friday, Wray singled out Russia as harboring many of the known users of ransomware.

Each of the 100 different malicious software variants are responsible for multiple ransomware attacks in the United States, Wray told the newspaper.  ... "

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