A massive “ransomware” cyber attack on Friday targeted a number of organisations across Europe, including Britain’s state-run health service and Spain’s biggest telecommunications firm. “This is a major cyber attack, impacting organisations across Europe at a scale I’ve never seen before,” said security architect Kevin Beaumont. Cyber attack targets 16 health organisations in UKIn Britain, hospitals and doctors’ surgeries were forced to turn away patients and cancel appointments after the nationwide cyber attack crippled some computer systems of the state-run National Health Service (NHS). No patient data was believed to have been accessed during the cyber attack but it was unclear whether the incident had impacted emergency cases. “There has been an alert relating to a massive ransomware attack on various organisations, which is affecting their Windows systems,” Spain’s National Cryptology Centre said.

Source: Hindustan Times May 12, 2017 14:52 UTC