We’ve had meat troubles off and on throughout the pandemic. Some of the world’s largest meat slaughterhouses have been shut down by a cyberattack, making meat shortages even worse.
We don’t yet know if this was a ransomware attack like the one that hit the Colonial Pipeline. But if it was, then it’s a reminder that cryptocurrencies make such attacks much easier to commit, as Bloomberg’s editorial board writes.
The ransomware attack is believed to have originated from a criminal group in Russia, where criminal group ‘DarkSide’ have extracted USD$46 million in ransom payments in 2021
It’s also just the latest example of how 2021 is the year of the Ever Given ramming into the bank of the Suez Canal forever. Computer chips, cars, plastics, lumber and more are hard to find. Even the chlorine tablets Americans dump in their swimming pools (not to be confused with the chlorine that are used on chicken) are scarce,
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