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Ransomware attacks could reach ‘pandemic’ proportions. What to know after the pipeline hack. Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Knowles © Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images An Out Of Service bag covers a gas pump as cars continue line up for the chance to fill their gas tanks at a Circle K gas station near uptown Charlotte on May 11, 2021, following a ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) A cybersecurity expert warned U.S. lawmakers last week that the world was on the cusp of a “pandemic of a different variety.” Christopher Krebs, who formerly headed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security that a form of malware called ransomware has become more prevalent than ever before. Given an ever-widening criminal enterprise and vulnerable digital landscape, he said, critical infrastructure is at risk of d

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