{"id":13862,"date":"2022-07-12T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/uk-warns-lawyers-not-to-advise-ransomware-payments\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:32:00","slug":"uk-warns-lawyers-not-to-advise-ransomware-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/uk-warns-lawyers-not-to-advise-ransomware-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Warns Lawyers Not to Advise Ransomware Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>The NCSC and the ICO have warned UK lawyers not to advise clients to pay a ransom to cybercriminals<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><span>In a letter addressed to UK lawyers dated July 7, 2022, the UK\u2019s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO), have reiterated \u2013 with teeth \u2013 the official stance on not paying a ransom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/uk-warns-lawyers-not-advise-ransomware-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VhCg-IIOjFU:Xzc43MZNHng:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCSC and the ICO have warned UK lawyers not to advise clients to pay a ransom to cybercriminals In a letter addressed to UK lawyers dated July 7, 2022, the UK\u2019s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO), have reiterated \u2013 with teeth \u2013 the official stance on not paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybercrime","category-incident-response","category-news-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}