Gardaí seize servers of gang behind HSE cyberattack

Det. Supt Cleary said there had been a huge increase in “scam texts, calls, hacking ransomware - none more serious than the HSE attack back in May". File photo

Gardaí believe they have foiled a number of potential cyberattacks after they launched a server take-down operation targeting the gang which hacked the HSE.

The head of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau said garda technical experts were involved in a major operation recently which involved the ‘seizure’ by gardaí of the servers used by the cyber gang which was behind the hugely damaging and disruptive cyberattack on the HSE last May.