{"id":2540,"date":"2021-07-17T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiarch.com\/blog\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2021-07-17T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:30:41","slug":"us-government-offers-10-million-price-for-clue-on-nation-state-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiarch.com\/blog\/us-government-offers-10-million-price-for-clue-on-nation-state-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Offers $10 million Price for Clue on Nation-State Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The United States government has taken two major active actions to fight and defend malicious cyber activities affecting the country\u2019s business and sensitive framework sectors.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
One action is a website with resources from across the federal government created to help businesses and communities from ransomware attacks.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other one is by gifting a reward of up to $10 million for any information on operations conducted by threat actors working for a foreign government.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do they deal with Ransomware Threats?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In early this week, the U.S. Government started the StopRansomware.gov website especially to help private and public entities mitigate the ransomware threat.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is means as a central platform for data about ransomware collected from all the federal government agencies, which consists up of the instructions, the latest alerts, resources, and all the updates.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, \u201cStopRansomware.gov includes resources and content form DHS\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.S. Secret Service, the Department of Justice\u2019s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Department of Commerce\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Departments of the Treasury and Health and Human Service.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ransomware threat has increased to extraordinary levels lately, with attacks on critical frameworks and businesses that break into the regular individual.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cyberattacks on giants like JBS Foods, one of the largest meat producers in the world, on Colonial Pipeline \u2013 the main fuel supply line for the U.S East Coast, or the most recent one on Kaseya, which affected up to 1,500 businesses worldwide, highlighted, even more, the effort important to handle it.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following Nation-State Hackers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of State announced that its Rewards for Justice (REJ) program now encouraging reports of foreign malicious activity against U.S. sensitive infrastructure.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The price is up to $million and it is designed for details that can help discover and locate any person that acts on behalf of a foreign government in a malicious cyber operation. <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The actions may include fraud as part of a ransomware attack, hijacking data from protected systems, \u201cand consciously causing the communication of a program, data, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causing damage without authorization to a protected computer.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSecured computers include not only U.S. government and financial institution computer system, but also those used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication,\u201d by U.S. Department of State<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The payment may be enough to encourage hackers involved in attacks affecting critical infrastructure in the U.S. to turn on each other and get a legal, stress-free payout.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
To get the data in a protected design and to protect the safety of probable sources, the Department of State set up a tips-reporting service on the dark web:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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