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NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week's Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments. Ongoing service disruptions at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and primary care providers across South East London result from Synnovis being locked out of its systems by a June 3 attack linked to the Qilin ransomware operation.
On June 13, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri wrote an update to the blog post written about shifting Recall to opt-in last week. "We are adjusting the release model for Recall to leverage the expertise of the Windows Insider community to ensure the experience meets our high standards for quality and security," he wrote.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a high-severity Windows vulnerability abused in ransomware attacks as a zero-day to its catalog of actively exploited security bugs. Successful exploitation lets local attackers gain SYSTEM permissions in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.
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A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. Nagaraju Kandula, 39, pleaded guilty to deleting the virtual servers in an attempt to sabotage the firm's systems out of spite for getting fired from NCS, causing damages estimated to $678,0000.
A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. Nagaraju Kandula, 39, pleaded guilty to deleting the virtual servers in an attempt to sabotage the firm's systems out of spite for getting fired from NCS, causing damages estimated to $678,0000.
Microsoft says it removed a Copilot app that was "Incorrectly" added to Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems in April due to buggy Microsoft Edge updates. The AI-powered Copilot digital assistant was also added to some Windows Server 2025 preview builds earlier this year, but the company removed it after backlash from Windows admins.
The Scattered Spider gang has started to steal data from software-as-a-service applications and establish persistence through creating new virtual machines. While there are reports about Scattered Spider being an organized gang with specific members, the group is actually a loose knit collective of English-speaking individuals that work together to carry out breaches, steal data, and extort their targets.
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