World’s biggest meat producer JBS pays $11m cyber-crime ransom

A cyber-attack last week that hit the supply chains of one of the world’s largest perishables shippers was ended after Brazilian meat producer JBS paid an $11m ransom in bitcoin to cyber criminals. According to The Guardian, the firm has an annual IT capex of around $200m and employs over 850 tech engineers. It was reportedly told by the FBI the hacking group was likely to be from Russia.