Third-party ransomware attack triggers emergency declaration in London hospitals

Numerous major health providers across London have issued an emergency declaration to postpone non-emergency patient care following a ransomware attack that disrupted all IT systems of third-party medical testing and diagnostics provider Synnovis, the recovery timeline of which remains to be uncertain, Ars Technica reports.

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