HSE officials hope a tool developed by a New Zealand company, which has been offered to the State for free, will significantly speed up the restoration of systems following last week’s ransomware attack. On Thursday the gang behind the cyberattack gave the HSE a decryption tool to restore the health service systems which had been rendered useless by the malware known as Conti. O Friday officials concluded this tool is genuine and that it works, but that the software is “flawed” and “buggy”. The threat of the criminal gang, known as Wizard Spider, leaking sensitive data from the HSE systems unless it receives a ransom remains outstanding. “This includes work related to the use of the decryption tool released yesterday to enable it to be safely deployed on the HSE network.

Source: The Irish Times May 21, 2021 13:20 UTC