{"id":4693,"date":"2022-02-09T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/russian-ransomware-attacks-increased-during-2021-joint-review-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:38:20","slug":"russian-ransomware-attacks-increased-during-2021-joint-review-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/russian-ransomware-attacks-increased-during-2021-joint-review-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ransomware attacks increased during 2021, joint review finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, the US and Australia point to growth in \u2018sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>There have been further increases in \u201csophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u201d coming from Russia and other former Soviet states during 2021, Britain, the US and Australia said in a joint review of cyber-extortion trends.<\/p>\n<p>Universities and schools were one of the top sectors targeted in the UK last year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said, as well as businesses, charities, law firms, councils and the NHS. Hackers are increasingly offering services or exploits \u201cfor hire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/09\/russian-ransomware-attacks-increased-during-2021-joint-review-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6916447836ba5d704a3c51cc73585a975fd67ca0\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59d4a4d9f2d748d30cdf4174be28b0c1\" title=\"Russian ransomware attacks increased during 2021, joint review finds\" \/>Britain, the US and Australia point to growth in \u2018sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u2019<br \/>\nThere have been further increases in \u201csophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u201d coming from Russia and other former Soviet states during 2021, Britain, the US and Australia said in a joint review of cyber-extortion trends.<br \/>\nUniversities and schools were one of the top sectors targeted in the UK last year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said, as well as businesses, charities, law firms, councils and the NHS. Hackers are increasingly offering services or exploits \u201cfor hire\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, the US and Australia point to growth in \u2018sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u2019 There have been further increases in \u201csophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents\u201d coming from Russia and other former Soviet states during 2021, Britain, the US and Australia said in a joint review of cyber-extortion trends. Universities and schools were one of the top sectors &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/russian-ransomware-attacks-increased-during-2021-joint-review-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian ransomware attacks increased during 2021, joint review finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4694,"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\/4693"}],"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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}