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More than 1,000 planned operations and over 3,000 outpatient appointments have been postponed amid ongoing disruption caused by a cyber-attack that impacted London hospitals.  Synnovis, an agency which manages labs for NHS trusts and GPs in south-east London, was the victim of a data hack on 3 June.[1]

New figures from NHS England show that since then, 3,396 appointments and 1,255 elective procedures have been postponed.  In a statement, the chief executives of two affected trusts said they were

Qilin, the ransomware group behind an attack that has disrupted healthcare across London, has listed the victim organization Synnovis on its darknet extortion site.  The attack earlier this month on Synnovis, a business providing pathology services for hospitals and local clinics in the capital, prompted major disruptions to services, with blood tests in South East London operating at approximately 10% normal capacity.  “Half of this capacity has been ringfenced to support patients in the acute

Hospitals and healthcare subsidiaries have been in the cyber security headlines for over a year now.  And attacks appear to have not slowed.  More than 1,130 planned operations and 2,190 outpatient appointments have been postponed after a cyber-attack hit London area hospitals.  The disruption was caused when hackers targeted pathology services provider Synnovis.  NHS England said two NHS trusts, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, were aff

According to cyber threat professionals, every 11 seconds an organization falls victim to a ransomware attack.  In today's interconnected world, cybersecurity looms as an ever-present concern that organizations can no longer afford to sideline. A 48% increase in cyber risk last year should serve as a wake-up call to all business managers.  Whether a business pays hackers a ransom or not, there are significant costs involved which will include items such as digital forensics and data restoration,

North Rhine-Westphalia Polizei reported on 06 March 2023, that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years, raking in millions of euros and US Dollars.  Working with law enforcement partners including Europol, the US FBI and authorities in Ukraine, police in Duesseldorf said they were able to identify 11 individuals linked to a group that has operated in various guises since at least 2010.

The gang allegedly behind t

A cyber-attack on Britain’s NHS systems detected nearly two months ago is still "compromising" the quality of care trusts can provide, a health boss said.  Software used for check-ins, notes and the NHS 111 service was affected by the ransomware attack found on 4 August 2022.  The chief executive of Oxford Health Foundation Trust (OH) said it has done all it can to maintain services despite the disruption.  Software provider Advanced said disruption could continue for weeks.  The OH said it init

There was once an unwritten moral code among cyber hackers that they would never attack vulnerable businesses like health care.  Well, those disingenuous hacker ethics are out the door; have been for awhile.  After dealing with the hack of the UK’s NHS controlled ambulance service last week[1], malicious hackers are now holding an IT firm that supplies NHS ‘trusts’ to ransom following a cyber-attack.  NHS trusts are public sector bodies established by parliamentary order through the UK Secretary

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 14 January 2022:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 24,345 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Microsoft IP’s in UK and N. Ireland hit
• Analysts identified 1,435 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Rook Ransomware
• More Log4j
• Ukraine Cyber Bust
• UK NHS
• Who’s Winning?
• Google Docs
• The Electric Grid’s Hot Wires
• BLM suing LAPD

Link to full report: IR-22-014-001_weekly014.pdf