{"id":78633,"date":"2021-06-29T02:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=78633"},"modified":"2021-06-29T02:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:44:15","slug":"increase-in-ransomware-attacks-absolutely-aligns-with-rise-of-crypto-fireeye-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2021\/increase-in-ransomware-attacks-absolutely-aligns-with-rise-of-crypto-fireeye-ceo-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Increase in ransomware attacks \u2018absolutely aligns\u2019 with rise of crypto, FireEye CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The increase in ransomware attacks is closely connected to the advent of cryptocurrency, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FEYE\" target=\"_blank\">FireEye<\/a> CEO <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/company\/leadership\/kevin-mandia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Mandia<\/a> said Monday. \u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a direct correlation,\u201d the cybersecurity firm executive said  \u201cWhen you look at the rise of ransomware, it absolutely aligns with the rise of anonymous digital currencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/28\/fireeye-ceo-spike-in-ransomware-attacks-absolutely-aligns-with-crypto-rise-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The increase in ransomware attacks is closely connected to the advent of cryptocurrency, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said Monday. \u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a direct correlation,\u201d the cybersecurity firm executive said \u201cWhen you look at the rise of ransomware, it absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78634,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions\/78634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}