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...Bloomberg News reported that Caesars Entertainment, an MGM rival, had recently paid a multimillion dollar ransom to a cybercriminal gang....
...the transition to renewable power intensifies, consumers do not return to fossil fuels from heat pumps or electric vehicles and the US keeps drilling and pumping to ensure Opec+ cannot hold the world to ransom...
...Families are often forced to crowdfund money to raise ransoms and even negotiate directly with the gangs....
...In the case of Saudi Aramco, the data ransom demand was not the first it has suffered....
...“They were holding our stuff to ransom until we paid more money,” said Rachel, who asked the Financial Times not to publish her real name....
...Apparently, in 68 per cent of cases the second attack came less than a month later — and with bigger ransom demands. Ouch. The White House is pushing the insurance industry to change....
...Somali pirates launched hundreds of attacks a year on commercial ships when the problem was at its worst and scores of vessels were held until ransoms were paid....
...The incident could deliver a jolt to China’s sleepy cyber security industry....
...If the Houthis were expecting to hold globalisation to ransom through their Red Sea attacks, they’re failing....
...and demand ransoms....
...ransom using a cryptocurrency....
...Nigerian authorities also announced a crackdown last month on alleged hoarding by middlemen in the food industry....
...Caesars has reportedly paid a $15mn ransom to the hackers. Moody’s deemed the breach at MGM a “credit negative” for the company. It said it may suffer lost revenue and remediation costs....
...Spotting an opportunity, chief executive Andy Ransom sold over 1mn shares on April 21 for a grand total of £6.34mn. This represented roughly 15 per cent of his total stake....
...With no ransom demand, Chilean authorities had said the abduction of Ojeda — who had protested against the revolutionary socialist government of Nicolás Maduro — may have been the work of Venezuelan agents...
...This is a dish for which even a critic on expenses, avowedly supportive of raised prices in the hospitality industry and firm in the belief that it’s your money and you should be able to bloody well spend...
...Being private also allows Aldi and Lidl to keep prying eyes at bay and not to be held to ransom by shareholders if they do not meet their sales or profit forecasts....
...For instance, the hackers recently posted a vast amount of data from Shell, an indication that the company did not pay a ransom....
...But it was the industry-wide recognition of the clarity of her advice on post-Brexit financial services that won Rachel Kent most support from the panel, and made her our clear winner....
...“Then they get here and the classes at Ransom are more difficult,” he says....
...This would leave Britain at the mercy of “Putin or anyone else who wants to hold us to ransom”, he said, referring to the Russian president whose invasion of Ukraine caused global oil and gas prices to surge...
...An organised criminal hacking group had broken into Dragos’s employee email account, telling Lee they would release the company’s data unless a ransom were paid....
...Then, in the wake of an attack, they will engage lawyers, along with ransom negotiators and advisers....
...Ransom highlighted “two quotes that I often come out with” — “the pest control industry is biblical in nature” and “the rats don’t read the FT”....
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