Yikes, this is NOT the sort of problem you want to have on a Friday afternoon
There's little information on there regarding the cause of the means of propagation of the attack but I certainly feel for all the IT staff that have to run an emergency room that late on a Friday afternoon. The timing certainly sucks.
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NHS cyber-attack: GPs and hospitals hit by ransomware – BBC News
Patient data at GP surgeries and hospitals has been scrambled by ransomware, amid reports of organisations worldwide being hit in IT attacks.
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I am just glad that if this is a more general nasty new virus infection on Windows machines and the NHS has just happened to get hit first… my Linux computers will be safe.