{"id":8685,"date":"2021-07-19T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:02:29","slug":"u-s-offers-10-million-reward-for-tips-on-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-s-offers-10-million-reward-for-tips-on-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward For Tips On Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of State announced a program with rewards of up to $10 million to help bring in details that could identify and locate anyone acting on behalf of a foreign government in malicious cyber operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that the financial incentive could be enough to encourage the hackers involved in the process to turn against each other and get a legal payout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rewards for Justice program follows the launch of the website StopRansomware.gov, which will help companies control ransomware threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform provides information from all federal government agencies and includes the latest resources, updates and alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ransomware attacks have increased enormously in recent months, targeting critical infrastructures such as JBS Foods, the Colonial pipeline and the latest Kaseya.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/us-govt-offers-10-million-reward-for-tips-on-nation-state-hackers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government announced a program with rewards of up to $10 million to help bring in details to combat oversea hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}