Cyber Criminals, Furlough and the PCI DSS

The UK went into lockdown on March 23rd 2020 and the government introduced to us a new word “furlough”. Of course, 99.9% of us had never heard of this before but many welcomed the fact that they would be able to sit at home on 80% of their wage. It was also on this momentous day that the wizened old man, Woodstradamus, made his prediction that cyber criminals wouldn’t be furloughed and they would carry on doing what they do. Only it wasn’t that bold of a prediction, it was actually like betting on the Harlem