{"id":41349,"date":"2021-06-15T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ncsc-chief-ransomware-is-more-of-a-threat-to-britain-than-hostile-nations-spies\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:53:07","slug":"ncsc-chief-ransomware-is-more-of-a-threat-to-britain-than-hostile-nations-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ncsc-chief-ransomware-is-more-of-a-threat-to-britain-than-hostile-nations-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"NCSC chief: Ransomware is more of a threat to Britain than hostile nations’ spies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget foreign spies. The head of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has warned it is ransomware that’s the key threat for most people.<\/p>\n

“What I find most worrying isn’t the activity of state actors,” NCSC chief exec Lindy Cameron told a national security audience, joining the chorus of organisations calling out ransomware criminals as the number one cybersecurity threat of the moment.<\/p>\n

The speech marks the first time that GCHQ, the spy agency and parent body of the National Cyber Security Centre, has acknowledged a cyber threat as being of more concern to the UK than traditional state spying.<\/p>\n