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Global ransomware payments plunge by a third amid crackdown

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Money stolen falls from record $1.25bn to $813m as more victims refuse to pay off criminal gangs Ransomware payments fell by more than a third last year to $813m (£650m) as victims refused to pay cybercriminals and law enforcement cracked down on gangs, figures reveal. The decline in …

DeepSeek blocked from some app stores in Italy amid questions on data use

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Italian and Irish regulators want answers on how data harvested by chatbot could be used by Chinese government The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has become unavailable for download from some app stores in Italy as regulators in Rome and in Ireland demanded answers from the company about its handling …

Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says

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Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’ The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned …

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