Ransomware attack continues to disrupt healthcare in London nearly two years later
2026-04-19T02:51:59Z•e5b57256133de9b7b3826e66592e7fe5abc7c569fcaba7dba3ee236d1f180eca
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What happened
Multiple cybersecurity and national-security developments: a ransomware attack that hit South East London hospitals continues to disrupt NHS services and leave at least one trust working without fully restored systems more than 18 months later; an international takedown (over 20 countries) led to arrests and disruption of ‘PowerOFF’ DDoS-for-hire platforms; Ukraine attributes a campaign to suspected APT28 actors that exploited vulnerabilities in the open-source Roundcube webmail platform to execute code when a user opens email; the U.S. House passed a 10-day extension for a warrantless e-surve
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