{"id":11553,"date":"2023-09-14T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/who-is-behind-the-latest-wave-of-uk-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:37:46","slug":"who-is-behind-the-latest-wave-of-uk-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/who-is-behind-the-latest-wave-of-uk-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Manchester police force has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/sep\/14\/greater-manchester-police-officers-data-hacked-in-cyber-attack\">latest entity<\/a> to fall victim to a now well-established form of cyberattack: the ransomware hack.<\/p>\n<p>GMP said on Thursday a third-party supplier holding information on its employees had been breached. It is understood that data potentially exposed in the hack included the details of officers\u2019 name badges such as ranks, photos and serial numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/14\/who-is-behind-latest-wave-of-ransomware-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c83c2277708ac44880857a63917d60b7936c4b79\/0_56_9504_5702\/master\/9504.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=52005c8911534c1a032242cd9b700512\" title=\"Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?\" \/>Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack<br \/>\nThe Greater Manchester police force has become the latest entity to fall victim to a now well-established form of cyberattack: the ransomware hack.<br \/>\nGMP said on Thursday a third-party supplier holding information on its employees had been breached. It is understood that data potentially exposed in the hack included the details of officers\u2019 name badges such as ranks, photos and serial numbers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Manchester police becomes latest entity to fall victim to this kind of hack The Greater Manchester police force has become the latest entity to fall victim to a now well-established form of cyberattack: the ransomware hack. GMP said on Thursday a third-party supplier holding information on its employees had been breached. It is understood &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/who-is-behind-the-latest-wave-of-uk-ransomware-attacks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is behind the latest wave of UK ransomware attacks?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}