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...“Holding bill payers to ransom for costs after years of under-investment is completely unacceptable.”...
...How to stand up to your bullying inbox Are endless emails holding you to ransom? Time to “step forward and fight back”, writes Tim Harford. But how?...
...Flamboyantly, in the case of Danny Boyle’s Pistol, a six-part television drama series on Disney Plus based on the recollections of the group’s founder-member Steve Jones; self-servingly, in a new documentary...
...Cl0P is one of several ransomware cartels that seize a target’s data, demanding a ransom to release it....
...The Colonial pipeline has been shut since Friday after what the FBI said was a ransom attack by a hacking group called DarkSide....
...Some analysts said that if the shutdown lasts longer than a week, the US will need to consider temporarily waiving the Jones Act, which bans non-US-flagged vessels to carry cargoes between American ports...
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
...“If you are a ransomware attacker right now the payouts just got a lot high because having your system down just became deadly,” Mr Jones noted....
...market for malware — malicious software that includes spyware, for the surveillance of targets without their knowledge, and ransomware, where hackers disable a victims’ files or systems until they pay a ransom...
...PSA’s Mr Ramos-Jones said the increased tax burden could slow the industry’s growth “but not enough to result in a complete shutdown”....
...A clearly aggrieved Mr Draghi hit back, saying “Ransom note? It’s called a letter.” “You want us to provide unlimited, unconditional, eternal liquidity?...
...The ransom payment method set up for the attack was flimsy. The hackers took the unorthodox step of demanding victims send notification of ransom payment to a single email address....
...The malicious software prevents users accessing their computers and demands they pay a $300 ransom in bitcoin, but in fact, it simply wipes the files so even if a victim pays the ransom, they do not regain...
...The user then gets a ransom demand — usually asking for payment in a “crypto currency” such as bitcoin — which must be paid in order for access to be restored. Ransomware’s use has been on the rise....
...So far relatively few ransoms have been paid....
...The malware attack looked like a form of ransomware — upon infection, it encrypts its victims’ computer files and demands a ransom payment to unscramble them — but is in fact purely destructive in nature...
...The new ransomware attack shut down computers and demanded a $300 ransom in bitcoins from users to retrieve data....
...The exercise looked at how well hedge funds might deal with data thefts, attacks on their financial infrastructure and ransom demands from hackers....
...TalkTalk said it had received a ransom note demanding money ahead of the release of its customers’ data — some of which are already being offered for sale online, according to security experts....
...A deal between Labour and the Scottish National party could see the country held to ransom and would undermine the stability of the UK....
...Banking is a cyber security story Last week, the FT’s Sam Jones outlined how commercialised cyber crime has become....
...The business figures argue that any other permutation for a coalition would be bad for the country, with the SNP holding the country “to ransom” and Ukip wrecking Britain’s relations with Europe....
...Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation, the small business network, agreed....
...Opportunities to loot and kidnap for ransom, which Mr Soltvedt said earned Isis around $20m last year and the FATF put at anything up to $45m, have also become rare as the coalition campaign slows Isis’...
...As well as oil sales, the US intelligence community believes Isis is earning “several millions” a month from extortion activities and, so far this year, has netted more than $20m through the ransom of foreign...
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