JBS confirms it paid millions in ransom money

2021-06-10 2

Global meat processing company JBS Foods has confirmed it paid 11-million US dollars in Bitcoin to a criminal gang, to end a five-day cyber attack that stopped its operations in Australia and around the world last week. Rachael Falk is the CEO of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, says people may not be aware how often these types of attacks take place.