A new attack, part of a global spate of ransom ware cyber infiltration, hit companies and government organizations in at least seven countries. Hospitals are understood to have lost the use of phone lines and computers. Some hospitals diverting all but emergency patients elsewhere. At some hospitals patients are being told not to come to A&E with all non-urgent operations cancelled.
Russian police forces and Spanish telecoms firms were amongst other victims of the attacks, which involves a virus encrypt a computers files and demand payment in bitcoin to de-code them.
In the UK, dozens of hospital trusts and GP surgeries are reporting problems, but the full scale of the problems is not yet known. This is the new war today.
[The telegraph- 12 MAY 2017 • 7:58PM]
[The telegraph- 12 MAY 2017 • 7:58PM]
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