Knights of Old and a ransomware joust

Update: 2025-12-02

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We return to a story on the Akira ransomware group. For 150 years Knights of Old, a U.K. logistics company, survived everything from two world wars to Brexit. Then Akira stormed the company's networks. In just a blink of an eye, everything changed.

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Knights of Old and a ransomware joust