{"id":159213,"date":"2023-02-28T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/us-marshals-service-hit-with-ransomware-attack"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:24:29","slug":"us-marshals-service-hit-with-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/us-marshals-service-hit-with-ransomware-attack","title":{"rendered":"US Marshals Service hit with ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-marshals-service-hit-with-ransomware-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States Marshals Service (USMS) was hit with a ransomware attack the agency said in a statement. The incident occurred on February 17, and \u201cofficials determined that it constitutes a major incident,\u201d according to an agency spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware is a type of malware that locks up computer systems until a \u201cransom\u201d is paid to unlock the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Marshals Service (USMS) was hit with a ransomware attack the agency said in a statement. The incident occurred on February 17, and \u201cofficials determined that it constitutes a major incident,\u201d according to an agency spokesperson. Ransomware is a type of malware that locks up computer systems until a \u201cransom\u201d is paid to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}