Private hospitals in South Africa hit by cyberattack

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Private hospitals in South Africa hit by cyberattack

Private healthcare group Life Healthcare has announced that its South African business has been hit by a criminal cyberattack.

"Life Healthcare Group, a leading international healthcare organisation, regrets to announce that its southern African operation has been the victim of a targeted criminal attack on its IT systems," the company said.

"We acted immediately on becoming aware of the incident and took our systems offline, in order to actively contain the attack."

 

[|tera|]

Did they use Avast?

 

[Tokolotshe]

How could they!

It's not like the whole frigging world, except apparently South Africa, have been receiving alerts on attacks on healthcare providers since the outbreak of CovID.

Oh ... and ...

The mail system

<incident@cybersecurityhub.gov.za>: host
mta.cybersecurityhub.co.za[196.24.7.12] said: 550 5.1.1
<incident@cybersecurityhub.gov.za>: Recipient address rejected:
cybersecurityhub.gov.za (in reply to RCPT TO command)

 

[j4ck455]

No surprise that they were hacked when they don't even bother customising the default IIS installation (and why use IIS to start with):