St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council has reported a ransomware attack and is working with authorities to investigate and deal with the issues. Details are not available yet of any data theft of citizen’s information or extortion but it has had an impact on the council services
St Helens Council still dealing with suspected cyber-attack – BBC News
Your Takeaway
Phishing attacks are the most reported type of cyber incident as reported by UK organisations in the UK Government’s Cyber security breaches survey 2023, but the 5% of organisations that were impacted by ransomware would have suffered more disruption and spent more money to recover. (Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. 2023)
You need a ransomware plan – you need an incident response plan and a plan for business continuity. But let’s start with ransomware – have you read this yet?
If you have read it, have you taken action?
Phishing Attacks
Top of the attack list in the government report were phishing attacks – for help with those have a look at this:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
References
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. (2023). Cyber security breaches survey 2023. GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2023/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2023
