WANNACRY ATTACK: NHS, major organisations left reeling by co-ordinated hack
Winnipeg – VIJAY SHAH via Winnipeg Free Press and ReportCA.net Several of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service trusts, as well as numerous large companies across the globe are still recovering from a large-scale ‘unprecedented’ ransomware cyber attack which occurred this weekend, ReportCA.net wrote yesterday. The ‘cyberextortion’ attack, which involved hackers accessing computers via phishing emails, and locking systems and encrypting company data, also affected numerous firms engaged in the manufacturing, finance and transport sectors. Government agencies were also caught up in the debacle. Technicians at the NHS, which offers subsidised healthcare in the U.K., scrambled to limit the … Continue reading WANNACRY ATTACK: NHS, major organisations left reeling by co-ordinated hack