{"id":188104,"date":"2024-04-25T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hackers-are-using-developing-countries-for-ransomware-practice"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:24:11","slug":"hackers-are-using-developing-countries-for-ransomware-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hackers-are-using-developing-countries-for-ransomware-practice","title":{"rendered":"Hackers are using developing countries for ransomware practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-are-using-developing-countries-for-ransomware-practice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyber attackers are experimenting with their latest ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia, and South America before targeting richer countries that have more sophisticated security methods.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers have adopted a \u201cstrategy\u201d of infiltrating systems in the developing world before moving to higher-value targets such as in North America and Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday by cyber security firm Performanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdversaries are using developing countries as a platform where they can test their malicious programs before the more resourceful countries are targeted,\u201d the company told Banking Risk and Regulation, a service from FT Specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber attackers are experimenting with their latest ransomware on businesses in Africa, Asia, and South America before targeting richer countries that have more sophisticated security methods. Hackers have adopted a \u201cstrategy\u201d of infiltrating systems in the developing world before moving to higher-value targets such as in North America and Europe, according to a report published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188104","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=188104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}