"A hostage to fortune: ransomware and UK national security", rapport publié par le Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy de la la House of Commons, House of Lords britannique (4 décembre 2023).
"The UK is one of the most targeted countries in the world for ransomware, with some estimates putting it second only to the US..."
A la question "why the UK is victimised more than other major European economies", la Ministre de la sécurité répond "There is a very simple reason: the English Language. Then there is a more prosaic reason which is our open banking systems".
Le facteur linguistique peut étonner. Il serait l'un des déterminants de la surface d'attaques mondiale?