NHS England hit by 'cyber attack'

[n2doc]

Source: BBC

NHS services across England have been hit by IT failure, believed to be caused by a large-scale cyber attack.

Trusts and hospitals in London, Blackburn, Nottingham, Cumbria and Hertfordshire have been affected.

GPs are resorting to using pen and paper, according to newspaper the Blackpool Gazette, and phone and IT systems have been shut down.


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39899646

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[Zoonart]

1. Coming soon to a nation near you.

[SoCalNative]

2. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[JudyM]

3. Hospitals, ugh.

The spectre of what the world could be coming to...

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Demanding money

Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.

The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs. NHS England said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.
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In a message to a Guardian reporter, one NHS IT worker said: “At approximately 12.30pm we experienced a problem with our email servers crashing. Following this a lot of our clinical systems and patient systems were reported to have gone down.

“A bitcoin virus pop-up message had been introduced on to the network asking users to pay $300 to be able to access their PCs. You cannot get past this screen. This followed with an internal major incident being declared and advised all trust staff to shut down all PCs in the trust and await further instructions.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack

[raccoon]

5. Probably conservatives in the US. They HATE the idea of NHS. :silly: nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. No. Putin vs Labour Party; they want to renationalize several sectors. Hence Putin attacks NHS. nt

[dalton99a]

6. Another dry run exercise at the Vladimir Putin Institute of Hacking

[LiberalArkie]

7. Spain also

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telefonica-tells-employees-to-shut-down-computers-amid-massive-ransomware-outbreak/





England:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack?CMP=fb_gu


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[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Ransomware attacks reported worldwide

A massive ransomware campaign appears to have attacked a number of organisations around the world.

Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers and demands a payment in Bitcoin have been shared online by parties claiming to be affected.

There have been reports of infections in the UK, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Taiwan.
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One cyber-security researcher tweeted that he had detected 36,000 instances of the ransomware, called WannaCry and variants of that name.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

[Sunlei]

10. uggg ransomeware that takes bitcoin payment. bitcon miner Russians in action.