Hospitals across Britain were paralysed last night after cyber hackers held the National Health Service to ransom in an unprecedented attack that effected computer in scores of countries. Shockingly, there was one report, unconfirmed of a hospital paying $60,000 to free its system. The impact on patients is stunning Countless operations were cancelled and patients turned away as 45 NHS organisations and trusts and hundreds of doctors were locked out of their computer systems. The linked CBC story tells of a British-based researcher registered a domain that he noticed the malware was trying to connect to, limiting the worm’s spread. Thus, attacks are said to be on the decline, at least for the moment. But the damage done yesterday continues. The number of countries struck seems to vary but it is counted in the scores. Russia is said to be paralyzed in many sectors. CBC
Computer criminals have attacked and shut down the digital communication system at Humber River Hospital. The hospital says it is restoring computers and hospital staff is carrying on. Such attacks are usually accompanied by demands for a Bitcoin ransom but nothing has so far been mentioned by the hospital about…
A huge ransomware attack hitting dozens of countries has brought Britain's National Health Service to a near standstill and paralyzed businesses from Madrid to Moscow, reports indicate. The perpetrators are unknown but it is emerging that the attack was possible because of a flaw in Windows software that has been…
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