JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, there’s a relatively safe way to extort companies: cryptocurrencies. “Cryptocurrency provided the perfect answer to allowing hackers to prey on their victims and extort unlimited and anonymous cash payments while completely minimising their exposure of being caught by law enforcement,” programmer and writer Stephen Diehl explained in a recent Twitter thread. It’s never been easier to hack a company, get paid for it, and escape scot-free. JBS had to shut down nine beef plants in the United States on Tuesday, disrupting the larger food market. (Some of the plants slowly began coming back online on Wednesday.) This is just the latest corporate behemoth to be targeted with ransomware. Last month, an