Russian hackers who were sanctioned for targeting hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t be prosecuted because the National Crime Agency (NCA) lacks the legal power, the head of the agency said.
NCA Director General Graeme Biggar told a joint committee of parliamentarians that the agency would “very much like” its extraterritorial jurisdiction expanded so it can extradite foreign cybercriminals.
In February, the UK issued its first cyber sanctions with the U.S. government against seven Russian cyber criminals who had been “associated with the development or deployment of a range of ransomware strains” and malware including Conti, Diavol, Ryuk, Trickbot, Anchor, BazarLoader, and BazarBackdoor….