This new strain of ransomware was to blame for hospital cyber-attack

An NHS hospital group which suffered at the hands of May’s WannaCry outbreak has fallen victim to another ransomware attack and has been forced to cancel a number of patient appointments as a result. Malware was detected in NHS Lanarkshire IT systems on Friday 25 August and the cyber attack has since been identified as a new variant of Bitpaymer ransomware.

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