Hospitals' cyber-attack: Why a task force is needed to halt a sophisticated enemy: Greg Wright

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Hospitals' cyber-attack: Why a task force is needed to halt a sophisticated enemy: Greg Wright
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Cyber attacks cause real harm to real people.

Just ask anyone affected by the ransomware attack which affected major hospitals in London. They included 70-year-old Oliver Dowson who spent hours preparing for an operation, only to be told it would not go ahead. He told the PA news agency: “I’ve been given a date for next Tuesday and am crossing my fingers.” Vanessa Welham said her husband’s blood test was cancelled on Monday evening and he was informed that local centres were not taking bookings for an “indefinite period of time”.

concluded that 117m victims were affected by attacks on healthcare and finance industries in 2023. The healthcare industry in the US was the most vulnerable sector, with 809 data violation cases in 2023. described this as “a staggering surge” in incidents, with cases soaring from 343 in 2022. Ciaran Martin, former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a Russian group of cyber criminals was behind the attack on the pathology services in London. We are fighting a sophisticated foe. As Richard Hilton of IT support services firm Claritas Solutions noted recently, attacks are not generally instigated at the point of infiltration.

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