Roxanne Darling 🌿Nov 23, 2022
Kevin Beaumont

“Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management COBRA meetings”

COBRA is the major crisis management - eg it was used for COVID - so the fact ransomware makes up a majority of the meetings now suggests.. more action needed.

https://therecord.media/ransomware-incidents-now-make-up-majority-of-british-governments-crisis-management-cobra-meetings/

Ransomware incidents now make up majority of British government’s crisis management 'Cobra' meetings

Ransomware incidents in the United Kingdom are now so impactful that the majority of the British government’s recent crisis management COBR meetings have been convened in response to them rather than other emergencies.

The Record by Recorded Future
Nov 22, 2022 at 2:48pmWeb
Show threadSteve WilliamsNov 23, 2022
@GossiTheDog It feels like this government is holding the electorate to ransom.
Show threadgabe is not ghostNov 23, 2022

@GossiTheDog Or less meetings....

Ransomware response _should_ be mature enough to not require national crisis meetings as a regular thing

Show threadAlexander RutholNov 23, 2022
@GossiTheDog
Ban crypto.
Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyJan 13, 2023

@GossiTheDog

"Successive Home Secretaries have instead prioritized the issue of small boat crossings of migrants in the English Channel."

"with “ransom demands increasing”...“harder to avoid paying a ransom because the entire ecosystem is pushing that way.”... sanctions for foreign cryptocurrency exchanges described as the most fruitful."

God. Such a mess.