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KNP
king's knight's pawn.
KNP
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king's knight's pawn
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Similar tactics were employed in 2021 in an effort to save General Sherman — the largest tree on Earth by volume — from the KNP Complex fire that scorched large swaths of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
However, many companies are just choosing not to report the crime but simply to pay the criminals, says Paul Cashmore, a cyber-specialist brought in by KNP's insurers.
KNP - a Northamptonshire transport company - is just one of tens of thousands of UK businesses that have been hit by such attacks.
In KNP's case, it's thought the hackers managed to gain entry to the computer system by guessing an employee's password, after which they encrypted the company's data and locked its internal systems.
KNP director Paul Abbott says he hasn't told the employee that their compromised password most likely led to the destruction of the company.
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