RUSSIAN HACKERS THREATEN THE NHS
The Sunday Mirror|December 20, 2020
Data-grabbing bug can wreak havoc
CHRIS McLAUGHLIN
RUSSIAN HACKERS THREATEN THE NHS

HEALTH chiefs have ordered urgent action to thwart a suspected Russian cyberattack that could further cripple the NHS.

A sleeper bug is feared to have been planted in computers in March to harvest confidential patient data.

The software is also used by vaccine regulators and the alarm was raised after similar US systems were hacked.

A “high severity” alert has been issued across the NHS network. Now the race is on to find a way to activate a “kill switch” which SolarWinds, the Texas-based company providing the software, has devised.

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