{"id":1198396,"date":"2023-10-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198396"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:00:00","slug":"alliance-of-40-countries-to-vow-not-to-pay-ransom-to-cybercriminals-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198396","title":{"rendered":"Alliance of 40 Countries To Vow Not To Pay Ransom To Cybercriminals, US Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers&#8217; funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. From a report: The International Counter Ransomware Initiative comes as the number of ransomware attacks grows worldwide. The United States is by far the worst hit, with 46% of such attacks, Anne Neuberger, U.S. deputy national security adviser in the Biden administration for cyber and emerging technologies, told reporters on a virtual briefing. &#8220;As long as there is money flowing to ransomware criminals, this is a problem that will continue to grow,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Alliance+of+40+Countries+To+Vow+Not+To+Pay+Ransom+To+Cybercriminals%2C+US+Says%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F31%2F1546219%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-1193.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F31%2F1546219%2Falliance-of-40-countries-to-vow-not-to-pay-ransom-to-cybercriminals-us-says%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-596.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/31\/1546219\/alliance-of-40-countries-to-vow-not-to-pay-ransom-to-cybercriminals-us-says?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/31\/1546219\/alliance-of-40-countries-to-vow-not-to-pay-ransom-to-cybercriminals-us-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alliance of 40 Countries To Vow Not To Pay Ransom To Cybercriminals, US Says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers&#8217; funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. From a report: The International Counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1198396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}