Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná in 2017. A recent ransomware attack against JBS is raising concerns about cybersecurity at food companies. Eraldo Peres/AP hide caption
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As ransomware cases surge, the cyber criminals almost almost always demand, and receive, payment in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The world's largest meat supplier, JBS, announced Wednesday that it paid $11 million in Bitcoin to hackers in a recent ransomware attack. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett hide caption
A sign at the Colonial Pipeline Houston Station facility in Pasadena, Texas, warns against trespassing. Colonial was forced to shut down a key pipeline last month after suffering a ransomware attack. Such attacks are becoming more frequent and increasingly, they are targeting key infrastructure like fuel or food supplies. François Picard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Suffers Over 7 Ransomware Attacks An Hour. It's Now A National Security Risk
Principal T.J. Funderburg welcomes his mostly immigrant students during morning assembly at Cactus Elementary School. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
Unskilled Jobs Draw Migrants, Changing Face Of Small Towns Across America
A truck loaded with chickens arrives at a JBS meat processing plant in Samambaia, Brazil, in March. Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Beef carcasses hang in the sales cooler at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, Colo. Stephanie Paige Ogburn/KUNC hide caption
Inside The World's Largest Food Company You've Probably Never Heard Of
