
Costa Rica is the victim of ransomware attacks, shows threat still remains in US
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Costa Rica has been the victim of ransomware attacks which have paralyzed the country. This has been a problem for two months and has affected the entire country.
"Today it’s Costa Rica. Tomorrow it could be the Panama Canal," said Belisario Contreras, former manager of the cybersecurity program at the Organization of American States, referring to a major Central American shipping lane that carries a large amount of U.S. import and export traffic.
Last year, cybercriminals launched ransomware attacks in the U.S. that forced the shutdown of an oil pipeline that supplies the East Coast, halted production of the world’s largest meat-processing company and compromised a major software company that has thousands of customers around the world.
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