{"id":45219,"date":"2022-02-09T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-us-australia-issue-joint-advisory-ransomware-on-the-loose-critical-national-infrastructure-affected\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:28:04","slug":"uk-us-australia-issue-joint-advisory-ransomware-on-the-loose-critical-national-infrastructure-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-us-australia-issue-joint-advisory-ransomware-on-the-loose-critical-national-infrastructure-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, US, Australia issue joint advisory: Ransomware on the loose, critical national infrastructure affected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ransomware attacks are proliferating as criminals turn to gangs providing turnkey post-compromise services, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.<\/p>\n

In a joint UK-US-Australia advisory issued this afternoon, the three countries said they had “observed an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents against critical infrastructure organizations globally.”<\/p>\n

The warning comes hot on the heels of several high-profile attacks against oil distribution companies<\/a> and also businesses that operate ports in the West \u2013 though today’s note insists there was a move by criminals away from “big game hunting” against US targets.<\/p>\n