Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: NHS
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A report reveals that NHS staff were hit with a wave of malicious email attacks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with doctors, nurses and other key workers reporting over 40,000 spam and phishing attacks between March and the first half of July.