A cyber attack on the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust led to the trust declaring a “major incident”, affecting all its hospitals. Appointments have been cancelled, staff had to manually handle tasks, systems holding records have been shut down and patient services like x-rays were not functioning on the day of the attack. The local authority and the trust are working together to manage this situation.

Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware
Kaspersky has identified thousands of low-cost Android smartphones sold online that come with preinstalled malware programmed to steal cryptocurrency details. The devices are infected with