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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been warned about the growing threat of ransomware attacks and how it could be potentially damaging for the United States food industry.
According to Politico, the warning from security analysts at the University of Minnesota came just one week before the latest ransomware attack hit the industry. The publication reports that the latest cyber attack forced the shutdown of meat plants that process more than a fifth of the nation s beef supply in the latest demonstration of hackers ability to interrupt a critical piece of the U.S. economy.
Virtually no mandatory cybersecurity rules govern the millions of food and agriculture businesses that account for about a fifth of the U.S. economy. And now, the risk has become real.
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