{"id":3219,"date":"2021-10-11T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/russia-and-nearby-states-are-origin-of-most-ransomware-says-uk-cyber-chief\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:37:43","slug":"russia-and-nearby-states-are-origin-of-most-ransomware-says-uk-cyber-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/russia-and-nearby-states-are-origin-of-most-ransomware-says-uk-cyber-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and nearby states are origin of most ransomware, says UK cyber chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindy Cameron, head of National Cyber Security Centre, says extortion is most serious online threat to UK<\/p>\n<p>Cybercriminals from Russia and neighbouring states are behind the majority of online extortion conducted against businesses and other organisations in Britain, according to the chief of the UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency.<\/p>\n<p>Lindy Cameron, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), warned that so-called ransomware \u201cpresents the most immediate danger\u201d of all cyber threats faced by the UK in a speech to the Chatham House thinktank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/11\/russia-and-nearby-states-are-origin-of-most-ransomware-says-uk-cyber-chief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/65978b39dd0097b5fb9524edfbe6f724dbdad7eb\/0_177_7917_4750\/master\/7917.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8fe66c32009d5d3bf8e571808e9c140c\" title=\"Russia and nearby states are origin of most ransomware, says UK cyber chief\" \/>Lindy Cameron, head of National Cyber Security Centre, says extortion is most serious online threat to UK<br \/>\nCybercriminals from Russia and neighbouring states are behind the majority of online extortion conducted against businesses and other organisations in Britain, according to the chief of the UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency.<br \/>\nLindy Cameron, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), warned that so-called ransomware \u201cpresents the most immediate danger\u201d of all cyber threats faced by the UK in a speech to the Chatham House thinktank. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindy Cameron, head of National Cyber Security Centre, says extortion is most serious online threat to UK Cybercriminals from Russia and neighbouring states are behind the majority of online extortion conducted against businesses and other organisations in Britain, according to the chief of the UK\u2019s cybersecurity agency. Lindy Cameron, the chief executive of the National &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/russia-and-nearby-states-are-origin-of-most-ransomware-says-uk-cyber-chief\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia and nearby states are origin of most ransomware, says UK cyber chief<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3220,"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\/3219"}],"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=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}