SCGA Report: Regulating Ransomware Through International Law.
Tsvetelina Van Benthem & Christian J. Tams address the application of international law to ransomware operations.
This Report addresses the application of international law to ransomware operations. It analyses substantive rules relevant to ransomware and outlines how states violating these rules can be held
accountable. Its central aim is to highlight the applicable legal regimes and the main interpretative controversies concerning the boundaries of legal rules. The analysis offered in this Report will inform debates between stakeholders about ways of countering the ransomware threat through international law, and inform practically-relevant responses.
This Report has benefited from discussion at two roundtables involving members of government, industry and academia, and from consultations with the insurance sector.
Below you can download the full SCGA Report PDF document which opens with the following quote:
Ransomware is one of the most pressing geopolitical and security concerns of the decade. International law can play an important role in countering the ransomware threat.
