Jamie MacColl

Dec 6, 2024 | rusi.org | Jamie MacColl |Kathryn Westmore

A Russian-speaking money laundering network uncovered by the UK’s National Crime Agency shows the clear links between organised crime, sanctions evasion and hostile state activity. You would be forgiven for thinking that this week’s news from the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the multi-billion-dollar Russian-speaking money-laundering network that it has broken up is actually the script for a new Netflix drama. It has all the makings of a blockbuster.

Apr 18, 2024 | rusi.org | Tom Keatinge |Jen Ellis |Jamie MacColl |Conrad Prince

OverviewRansomware is causing significant harm to UK citizens, businesses and national security. Last year registered a record in revenues from ransomware, forcing policymakers to wrestle with one of the thorniest and most contentious questions in cyber policy: whether to ban ransomware payments. In early 2024, the former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, catalysed the debate on ransomware payments in the UK by arguing in a favour of a ban.

Dec 13, 2023 | rusi.org | Jamie MacColl |Gareth Mott

Over the last 10 years, cybercrime has entered the realm of national security. This shift has been driven by one type of cybercrime in particular – ransomware. Emerging from the Russian cyber-criminal ecosystem in the early 2010s, ransomware today is a highly disruptive form of cybercrime that encompasses a range of tactics and techniques designed to extort ransoms from individuals, businesses and even governments.

Oct 19, 2023 | inkl.com | Jamie MacColl

Musically, Bombay Bicycle Club are born wanderers. Signed and celebrated before they’d even left school, they spent their early years charting routes from the jovial indie pop of early tunes like 2009’s “Always Like This” into the electronic and experimental unknown.