The security minister has pledged to "break the business model" of cyber criminals after revealing that millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been handed to hostile actors in recent years. Dan Jarvis adds, "we want these cyber criminals to look at the UK as being a hard target so they avoid us". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We're introducing new measures to ensure that those cybercriminals who operate in places like Russia
00:05will look at the UK as being a hard target. We're seeking to introduce a ban on ransomware
00:12payments by public sector organisations, whether that's hospitals, local authorities or vital
00:17infrastructure organisations. We think that by doing that we will break the business model of
00:22the cybercriminals and get them to look at the UK as being a place to avoid. There have, there's
00:27been a number of public sector organisations that have paid ransoms. We think that that is
00:32the wrong approach. We don't know precisely how much money has been paid and that's why we're
00:36also seeking to introduce a mandatory reporting regime so we can understand more about the
00:42processes involved. But we want these cybercriminals to look at the UK as being a hard target so that
00:48they avoid us rather than target us. There have been a range of different public bodies who've
00:53paid ransoms over a number of years and we're seeking to prevent that happening in the future
00:58because we want the cybercriminals to understand that there will be very severe consequences from
01:03targeting the UK and we want them frankly to stop doing it and we think that the continued
01:09payment of ransoms is unhelpful in terms of stopping them doing it in the future.