{"id":3421,"date":"2021-10-25T17:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/ransomware-attacks-in-uk-have-doubled-in-a-year-says-gchq-boss\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:37:05","slug":"ransomware-attacks-in-uk-have-doubled-in-a-year-says-gchq-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/ransomware-attacks-in-uk-have-doubled-in-a-year-says-gchq-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attacks in UK have doubled in a year, says GCHQ boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Fleming says ransomware is proliferating as it is \u2018largely uncontested\u2019 and highly profitable<\/p>\n<p>The head of the UK spy agency GCHQ has disclosed that the number of ransomware attacks on British institutions has doubled in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, said locking files and data on a user\u2019s computer and demanding payment for their release had become increasingly popular among criminals because it was \u201clargely uncontested\u201d and highly profitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/oct\/25\/ransomware-attacks-in-uk-have-doubled-in-a-year-says-gchq-boss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b171da05d1509caed142c6e019a7ab5836e68eab\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1735ef50bb249d5f9a1a6e698c320c3d\" title=\"Ransomware attacks in UK have doubled in a year, says GCHQ boss\" \/>Jeremy Fleming says ransomware is proliferating as it is \u2018largely uncontested\u2019 and highly profitable<br \/>\nThe head of the UK spy agency GCHQ has disclosed that the number of ransomware attacks on British institutions has doubled in the past year.<br \/>\nJeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, said locking files and data on a user\u2019s computer and demanding payment for their release had become increasingly popular among criminals because it was \u201clargely uncontested\u201d and highly profitable. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Fleming says ransomware is proliferating as it is \u2018largely uncontested\u2019 and highly profitable The head of the UK spy agency GCHQ has disclosed that the number of ransomware attacks on British institutions has doubled in the past year. Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, said locking files and data on a user\u2019s computer and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/ransomware-attacks-in-uk-have-doubled-in-a-year-says-gchq-boss\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ransomware attacks in UK have doubled in a year, says GCHQ boss<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3422,"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\/3421"}],"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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}