{"id":43223,"date":"2022-04-20T04:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=43223"},"modified":"2022-04-20T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T04:15:54","slug":"monero-crypto-of-choice-as-ransomware-double-extortion-attacks-increase-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=43223","title":{"rendered":"Monero crypto of choice as ransomware \u2018double extortion\u2019 attacks increase 500%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA surge in ransomware in 2021 has also resulted in a surge in Monero usage as the method of payment as more criminal groups want only XMR.<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/monero-crypto-of-choice-as-ransomware-double-extortion-attacks-increase-500\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Monero, XMR, ransomware, privacy, cyberattacks, CipherTrace<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA surge in ransomware in 2021 has also resulted in a surge in Monero usage as the method of payment as more criminal groups want only XMR.Read MoreMonero,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}