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.

New Malware Loaders Use Call Stack Spoofing, GitHub C2, and .NET Reactor for Stealth
An updated version of a malware loader, known as Hijack Loader, has been discovered with new features aimed at evading detection and maintaining persistence. The