The US National Security Council calculated that hacker revenues around the world who used extortionable viruses in 2020 amounted to about 400 million dollars. Data is published on the site of the White House.
“Global economic losses from crime programs are huge. Payments in connection with their activities reached more than $ 400 million in 2020 throughout the world,” the report says. At the same time, the income of hackers-extortionists in the first quarter of 2021 has already exceeded 81 million dollars. According to the assertions of the White House, such attacks are directed against organizations of any size and do not depend on where they are located.
In this regard, the Presidential Administration Joe Bayiden stated that they would unite the efforts of different countries to combat hacker attacks. The US authorities plan to fight with the infrastructure of cybermenters, including financial, which allows them to make a profit and enforce crimes. Also, the White House plans to increase the stability of software against extortionate programs and suppress the use of cryptocurrency for laundering criminal income.
In the past few months, the United States has faced a series of powerful cyber, whose goal was to receive redemption. So, the American company COLONIAL PIPELINE paid the hackers to the ransom almost five million dollars after a cyberatics on the pipeline. Money from the company demanded that she can again gain access to his data. The company paid a hiker cryptocompany, which is impossible to track.
Another example is an attack on the international company KASEYA, software manufacturer. The company was subjected to a cyberatak with the use of an extortionist virus, and about 200 firms were injured. It was assumed that these companies were temporarily blocked, and the extorters demanded a redemption of 45 thousand dollars.