Russian hackers extorting British businesses for thousands
Times:
Thousands of British businesses have paid ransoms to Russian hackers who are launching hundreds of attacks every day and demanding up to £100,000 to release files.I don't suppose the Russian government has been of much help in stopping these thefts by extortion. These people are a bain on civilization and need to be found and prosecuted. Technology needs to be developed to find them and fry theri computers.
Experts said that the “epidemic” of ransomware was the biggest cyberthreat facing the country, and was far more pervasive than the Wannacry attack that paralysed the IT systems of scores of NHS trusts in May.
The number of attacks globally has increased twentyfold since 2015, according to Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity company. Britain was the second most targeted country after the US this year, and the worst affected per capita, accounting for 11 per cent of attacks, Sophos Labs, a web monitoring company, said....
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