Mason Boycott-Owen reports:
Hospitals, local councils and operators of critical U.K. infrastructure are among the organizations who will be banned from paying ransoms to hackers under new plans unveiled by the British government.
The move — which will cover all public sector bodies as well as the owners and operators of critical national infrastructure — comes after years of escalating cyber attacks on parts of the British state.
Many of these attacks on British institutions and infrastructure can be traced back to Russia-aligned hacking groups that are now the subject of sanctions. Estimates from Chinalysis suggest ransomware payments globally generated $1 billion from victims in 2023 alone.
Read more at Politico.
Related: The UK Sanctions List