It was last Thursday afternoon when officials at the Department of Health first noticed suspicious activity on their computer systems and contacted the National Cyber Security Agency.
The NCSC activated its crisis response procedures and called in an outside commercial specialist IT incident response company. IT specialists were able to detect, through a combination of anti-virus software and the deployment of tools, an attempt to execute ransomware and stop it. A document published online claiming to show the gang wanted $20m has been dismissed by those who are dealing with ‘Wizard Spider’ as "nonsense".
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