Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals

The UK government is consulting on proposals:

1: Targeted ban on ransomware payments for all public sector bodies, including local government, and for owners and operators of Critical National Infrastructure, that are regulated, or that have competent authorities.

2: any victim of ransomware not covered by 1, to engage with the authorities and report their intention to make a ransomware payment before paying over any money

3: A [unscoped/defined] ransomware incident reporting regime

Responses by 8 April 2025 at 17:00.

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Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals

The government is consulting on proposals to reduce the threat posed by the criminal infection of computer systems with malicious 'ransomware' software.

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