Security News > 2023 > January > The Guardian ransomware attack hits week two as staff told to work from home

Long-standing British newspaper The Guardian has told staff to continue working from home and notified the UK's data privacy watchdog about the security breach following a suspected ransomware attack before Christmas.

"We believe this to be a ransomware attack but are continuing to consider all possibilities," The Guardian Media Group Chief Executive Anna Bateson and Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner told staff last month.

According to the ICO's rules, organizations must notify the government agency within 72 hours of discovering a ransomware attack.

None of the usual suspects have claimed responsibility for the purported ransomware attack.

Ransomware gangs including LockBit have been especially busy over the past month, with that group of criminals attacking Canada's largest children's hospital and Los Angeles' public housing authority, among others.

At least 219 local governments, health-care providers, colleges, universities and school districts in the US alone were victims of ransomware attacks last year, according to numbers published this week by Emsisoft Malware Lab.

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