Latest in ransomware
The MDH hack exposes how vulnerabilities in public data supply chains have the potential to impact the information available to decision-makers in times of national and international crises and normal operations.
Some unresolved questions that policymakers must consider in exploring a role for the military in countering ransomware.
Foreign intelligence services can siphon a wealth of information from ransomware operations that are of operational and strategic value.
The United States government has adopted a comprehensive approach to combating ransomware.
What can be learned from the operations that got them to shut down?
Cyberattacks present unique challenges, but governments and businesses can learn from other forms of hostage-taking.
Recent ransomware attacks against the United States are raising questions about whether and how the military, specifically U.S. Cyber Command, might counter this type of malicious cyber activity. Here, we provide a road map for policymakers to help guide their decision-making on this critical policy challenge.
Ransomware amounts to an ongoing tax by foreign gangs on U.S. governments and industry. If U.S. companies are going to pay extortionate taxes to foreign non-state entities, they should at least have to file a tax return.
Making cryptocurrency mining illegal won’t stop all mining, but it will seriously disrupt it.
The best way to deal with this new era of big-game ransomware will involve not just securing computer systems or prosecuting criminals, but disrupting the one payment channel capable of moving millions at a time outside of money laundering laws: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.