Members of the Senate of Virginia, United States, approved bill number 399, for the creation of working groups that will analyze cryptocurrencies, cryptomining and blockchain technology.

This is a “historic” bill that seeks to study issues related to the “cryptocurrency ecosystem in general and make recommendations to encourage the expansion of this technology.”

During the session on Tuesday, March 5, the proposal was presented by the legislators with recommendations on these issues. The Virginia House of Delegates had already approved the previous day’s bill with 97 members in favor, one against and two who chose to abstain from voting.

According to Senator Saddam Azlan Salim on January 9, the objective “is to exempt miners from obtaining money transmitter licenses and prohibits selective ordinances.”

It was learned that there will be 13 members who make up the new working group on cryptocurrencies: five from the Senate, five from the House of Delegates, two non-legislative citizen members from the blockchain industry and one non-legislative citizen representing the local government.

The preliminary deadline that has been set for the relevant studies is November 1, 2024. By that date, the studies must be available to issue the recommendations “no later than the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.”

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Source: cointelegraph

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Paying a ransomware ransom is perceived by managers as a reliable way of dealing with the problem, to the point that close to 90 % of companies that are victims of this cyberattack would pay if attacked again.

The cybersecurity company Kaspersky conducted a survey of 900 business executives from around the world about their attitude to the threat.

Ransomware remains a significant threat, with two-thirds (64 %) of businesses experiencing an attack. According to the report, if an organization has been a victim of ransomware in the past, they are more likely to pay a ransom in the event of a new attack (88%).

These companies are also more likely to pay as soon as possible for immediate access to their data (33 % of previously attacked companies vs. 15 % of never-victimized companies), or to pay after only a couple of days of unsuccessful decryption attempts (30 % vs. 19 %).

“Since it is about business continuity, executives are forced to make difficult decisions about paying the ransom,” Kaspersky’s vice president of corporate product marketing Sergey Martsynkyan said in a statement.

The report also shows that 66 % of companies anticipate that this attack may occur in their business at some point, considering it more likely than other types of common attacks, such as denial of service (DDoS), supply chain, advanced persistent threat (APT), crypto mining or cyber espionage.

Source: dpa

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