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U.S. NEWS Thursday 5 March 2020

FBI working to 'burn down'

cyber criminals' infrastructure

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (AP) said during a conference Wray told the crowd of FBI
— To thwart increasingly on cybersecurity at Boston agents, university officials
dangerous cyber criminals, College. The ever-chang- and others on the Chestnut
law enforcement agents ing threat has forced law Hill campus.
are working to "burn down enforcement to get cre- The U.S. saw a nearly 40
their infrastructure" and ative and target the dark percent increase in ran-
take out the tools that al- web sites and other tools at somware attacks between
low them to carry out their hackers' disposal, he said. 2018 and 2019, said Joseph Bonavolonta, the head of the FBI's office In this Dec. 9, 2019, file
photo, FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an interview
devastating attacks, FBI "The reality is we are long in Boston. There was an with The Associated Press in Washington.
Director Christopher Wray past the days where we even more dramatic up- Associated Press
said Wednesday. can fight this threat just one tick in such attacks in just
Unsophisticated cyber by one, one bad guy at a the four states -- Massachu- "The threat of ransomware ware campaigns, which
criminals now have the time ... one victim company setts, Maine, Rhode Island is continuing to grow and maximizes the impact on
power to paralyze entire at a time. We've got to fig- and New Hampshire -- that evolve and we are seeing the victims to extort higher
hospitals, businesses and ure out ways to tackle the the Boston office covers, he a shift to more sophisticat- ransoms," Bonavolonta told
police departments, Wray cyber threat as a whole," said. ed, smaller scale ransom- the conference. q