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Today's 'sophisticated cyber attack' victim is the Woodland Trust: Pre-Xmas breach under investigation

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"If it is ransomware, the attack goes to show that no organisation, no matter how innocuous, is off-limits"

Early victims weren't even organisations. They were individuals such as me cousin-in-law who got hit with an email apparently from a friend. Fortunately that wasn't a sophisticate one - it simply deleted the original files instead of overwriting them.

But it just illustrates that any organisation, however unlikely a target it might think itself, needs a defence in depth.

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