The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK endured a year of turmoil and change in 2024, facing workforce shortages, growing waiting lists and shrinking budgets. Amidst the crises, the Labour government proposed a 10-year plan to shift the NHS from analogue to digital, an ambition spurred by the Darzi review’s critique of the NHS’s failure to digitize. Significant stories included a crippling cyber attack by the Qilin ransomware gang, a report identifying patient harms caused by digital tools, warnings of data breaches, and outages affecting major health systems.
Securonix Threat Labs 2024 Annual Autonomous Threat Sweeper (ATS) Intelligence Insights
2024 saw the evolution of cyber threats, with attacks on widely-used technologies like VPNs, advanced phishing campaigns, and exploitations of cloud services for malware distribution.
