Britain faces a “very important” volume of cyber attacks every year, the Minister of Security has warned that the aim of the new laws is to stop hackers from “extorting” businesses amid recent events.
And jarvis New measures send a signal to cyber criminals that the demand for ransom will not be tolerated.
Proposal from House office Public sector bodies and important national infrastructure operators will be banned.
This will also mean that private sector companies will not be covered by the ban. Government If they intend to give ransom.
“The UK is not alone in this, with our international colleagues, we are subject to very important cyber attacks every year,” Mr. Jarvis told the PA news agency.
“But from a government point of view of Britain, we are clear that these attacks are completely unacceptable.
“There is more more that we need to do to guard against them and that’s why we are offering these measures.”
Mr. Jarvis said that measures mean “low encouragement” to cyber criminals to target UK institutions as it banns ransom payment due to clarity.
He said, “We feel that these proposals will provide a powerful preventive, and what we want to do breaks the business model of cyber criminals who think that they can get away with withdrawing money from UK-based institutions,” he said.
He stressed that the government would ensure that “cyber criminals, whether they are in Russia or wherever they are, can face the full weight of the UK law”.
Ransomware refers to the software used by cyber criminals to reach the computer system of their victims, which can then be encrypted until the ransom is stolen.
This comes when four youths were arrested for their suspected participation in harming cyber attacks against Marx and Spencer, Co-Op and Herods in recent months.
Microsoft On Tuesday night, it also said that Chinese hackers broke their Sharepoint Document Software Server in a dialect to target major corporations and government agencies.
In addition, under proposals, a compulsory reporting regime would mean that companies and institutions are targeted by ransomware attacks, it is necessary to report it.
Mr. Jarvis said that the government was going to see very carefully on the exact details of the government “but it would provide more clarity and intelligence to the government agencies.
M&S President Archie Norman Earlier this month, MPs were told that UK businesses should be legally necessary to report major cyber attacks as they claimed that two recent hacks associated with “big British companies” had become unattainable.
Mr. Norman said that the retailer believes that Asia-based ransomware operations, dragonforce, were involved in the attack-but refused to say whether the ransom was paid or not.