UK firms are paying some of the highest ransoms globally

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British companies see Russia as a bigger threat than China

UK businesses are among the least likely to pay ransoms to cyber criminals, but when they do, they pay more than their peers in other parts of the world. That's according to the 2020 CrowdStrike...

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