Latest NHS news

London hospitals cancel over 800 operations after ransomware attack

NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week's Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 02:05 PM
- 1
London hospitals face blood shortage after Synnovis ransomware attack

England's NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has issued an urgent call to O Positive and O Negative blood donors to book appointments and donate after last week's cyberattack on pathology provider Synnovis impacted multiple hospitals in London.
- Bill Toulas
- June 10, 2024
- 11:43 AM
- 0
UK NHS service recovery may take a month after MSP ransomware attack

Managed service provider (MSP) Advanced confirmed that a ransomware attack on its systems caused the disruption of emergency services (111) from the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 11, 2022
- 12:18 PM
- 0
UK NHS suffers outage after cyberattack on managed service provider

United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) 111 emergency services are affected by a major outage triggered by a cyberattack that hit the systems of managed service provider (MSP) Advanced.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 05, 2022
- 06:43 PM
- 0
Attackers hijack UK NHS email accounts to steal Microsoft logins

For about half a year, work email accounts belonging to over 100 employees of the National Health System (NHS) in the U.K. were used in several phishing campaigns, some aiming to steal Microsoft logins.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 04, 2022
- 02:17 PM
- 0
NHS urges orgs to apply security update for Okta Client RCE bug

The UK's NHS Digital agency is warning organizations to apply new security updates for a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows client for the Okta Advanced Server Access authentication management platform.
- Bill Toulas
- February 25, 2022
- 01:58 PM
- 0
NHS warns of hackers exploiting Log4Shell in VMware Horizon

UK's National Health Service (NHS) has published a cyber alert warning of an unknown threat group targeting VMware Horizon deployments with Log4Shell exploits.
- Bill Toulas
- January 07, 2022
- 09:29 AM
- 0
Phishing actors start exploiting the Omicron COVID-19 variant

Phishing actors have quickly started to exploit the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant and now use it as a lure in their malicious email campaigns.
- Bill Toulas
- December 02, 2021
- 04:34 PM
- 0
Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack

A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK's National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 25, 2021
- 06:27 PM
- 0
UK Health Agency Switches to Windows 10 Citing WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak

The UK Department of Health and Social Care has announced that it will transition all National Health Service (NHS) computer systems to Windows 10.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 30, 2018
- 12:20 AM
- 0