{"id":44098,"date":"2021-06-10T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44098"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:25:04","slug":"jbs-paid-11-million-in-bitcoin-to-ransomware-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jbs-paid-11-million-in-bitcoin-to-ransomware-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"JBS paid $11 million in bitcoin to ransomware operators."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest meat-processing company JBS paid hackers a ransom of $11 million in bitcoins. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jbs-paid-11-million-to-resolve-ransomware-attack-11623280781?mod=hp_lead_pos2\\\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported this, citing CEO Andre Nogueira [Andre Nogueira].<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>He described the payment as \\&#8221;painful\\&#8221; and said it was made after most plants had resumed operations.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>A JBS spokesperson said the company immediately notified the FBI about the attack. It is not yet clear how the attackers gained access to the systems; the investigation is ongoing, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>JBS became <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-hackers-suspected-in-attack-on-worlds-largest-meat-producer-jbs\">a victim of a ransomware attack<\/a> in late May. The White House said that the breach was most likely carried out by hackers based in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, amid a rise in ransomware attacks, investigations into similar incidents in the United States were given <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-raises-the-priority-of-cyberattack-investigations-to-the-level-of-terrorism-cases\">the same level of priority as terrorism cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The administration of President Joe Biden described <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/biden-administration-to-study-use-of-cryptocurrencies-in-ransomware-attacks\">tracking cryptocurrency transactions<\/a> as one of the possible approaches to combating ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Later the FBI reported <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fbi-recovers-63-7-btc-from-colonial-pipeline-ransom-gains-access-to-a-bitcoin-wallet\">the return of 63.7 BTC<\/a>, paid to the hackers after the attack on the Colonial Pipeline operator. How exactly the agency gained access to the wallet is not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices, and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest meat-processing company JBS paid hackers a ransom of $11 million in bitcoins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1785,1154],"class_list":["post-44098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-buyout","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44100,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44098\/revisions\/44100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}