A shadowy hacker group brought the British Library to its knees. Is there any way to stop them? | Lamorna Ash

The future of cybercrime resembles an arms race between an industry of hackers-for-hire and the UK’s weak defences

It is not quite accurate to say that the cyber-attack against the British Library took place on 28 October 2023. Most probably, Rhysida, the hacker gang that orchestrated the attack and is thought to be Russian, had already been creeping undetected through the digital territories of the British Library for months, Enrico Mariconti, a lecturer in security and crime science at …

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