Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later
2026-04-19T20:51:58Z•af2cbc8d880312e9a4df9af590706eaacaf3966e727a455c5a8426b1950301d3
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber and legal developments: a ransomware incident that disrupted South East London NHS hospitals continues to affect at least one trust more than 18 months later, with systems not fully restored and large backlogs of delayed test results; an international coordinated takedown (over 20 countries) resulted in four arrests targeting ‘PowerOFF’ DDoS-for-hire platforms; Ukraine attributes a suspected APT28 campaign against prosecutors and anti-corruption bodies to exploitation of vulnerabilities in the open-source Roundcube webmail platform that enable remote code execution (
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