Organisations are facing a big increase in sophisticated fraud, in particular Synthetic Identity Fraud (SIF). SIF is one of the fastest growing threats, which sees criminals generating new, false identities using a combination of real, stolen and fake data – such as birthdates and addresses – which they then use …
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Text size The UK government said on Tuesday it would consult on proposals to ban bodies running essential public services and critical national infrastructure from making ransomware payments. The ban would aim to cut the flow of ransom payments to organised cybercrime groups as well boost intelligence gathering to target …
Read More »At the start of 2023, the UK postal service Royal Mail was hit with an ultimatum: pay $80m (£67m) or continue to have international shipments blocked. The demand came from Russian-linked hackers the LockBit group, who had infiltrated Royal Mail’s software. Royal Mail refused to pay and eventually reinstated its …
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Cyber disruptions to the UK’s Royal Mail service, first reported on Wednesday as a “cyber incident,” has now been identified as a ransomware attack, linked to the Russian-affiliated LockBit gang, Computing wrote today. LockBit encryptor found in use. The Telegraph broke the news of the confirmed ransomware attack yesterday, with …
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