The interim head of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the British Library “should be applauded” for refusing to pay an extortion fee to the criminals behind a ransomware attack last year. The British Library — the national library of the United Kingdom and an archive of millions of books and manuscripts — was hit by an initially unspecified attack last October, although internally the cause was known to be ransomware. The nature of the attack became public when the Rhysida g...