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“The Justice Department has formed a task force to curtail the proliferation of ransomware cyberattacks, in a bid to make the popular extortion schemes less lucrative by targeting the entire digital ecosystem that supports them,” Dustin Volz reports <\/a>for the WSJ.<\/p>\n

The memo calls for developing a strategy that targets the entire criminal ecosystem around ransomware, including prosecutions, disruptions of ongoing attacks and curbs on services that support the attacks, such as online forums that advertise the sale of ransomware or hosting services that facilitate ransomware campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A focus on this problem is welcome. Let’s hope it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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