{"id":17259,"date":"2025-01-14T06:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/ministers-consider-ban-on-all-uk-public-bodies-making-ransomware-payments\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T06:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:37:48","slug":"ministers-consider-ban-on-all-uk-public-bodies-making-ransomware-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/ministers-consider-ban-on-all-uk-public-bodies-making-ransomware-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments <\/p>\n<p>Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/14\/who-is-behind-latest-wave-of-ransomware-attacks\">ransomware payments<\/a> under government proposals to tackle hackers.<\/p>\n<p>In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold IT systems hostage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/14\/ministers-consider-ban-on-all-uk-public-bodies-making-ransomware-payments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/348f2d37c0a9a85f132639bb5343b6753cbb1ce7\/0_0_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=55245df7de7100750fa6ed38618b1bdf\" title=\"Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments\" \/>Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments<br \/>\nSchools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers.<br \/>\nIn a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold IT systems hostage. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/ministers-consider-ban-on-all-uk-public-bodies-making-ransomware-payments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17260,"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\/17259"}],"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=17259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}