occurred in Duesseldorf, Germany, when an IT system failure forced a critically ill patient to be routed to a hospital in another city.
He said the group was demanding exorbitant ransoms well above $10 million per target and that criminals involved on the dark web were discussing plans to try to infect more than 400 hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities. Mandiant’s Carmakal identified the criminal gang as UNC1878, saying “it is deliberately targeting and disrupting U.S. hospitals, forcing them to divert patients to other healthcare providers” and forcing prolonged delays in critical care in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century.
While no provable ties between the Russian government gangs that use the Trickbot platform have been established, Holden said “I absolutely have no doubt that the Russian government is aware of this operation — of terrorism, really.” He said dozens of different criminal groups use Ryuk, paying its architects a cut.
FCPwithGreta Maybe someday hospital I.T. staff will figure out the best way to secure your systems is to disconnect them from the internet. Then there's no chance for any remote hacking, someone would have to go into each hospital and gain network access to install ransomware.
Trump.
Alarming! Russian & Iranian cyber attacks breeched our govt and Microsoft defenses. If a blizzard of attacks occur election night, and vote counting thereafter, Trump could freeze election, then delay & muddle results to call the whole election into question.
Somebody should check to see what stocks the Trump Mob has been buying & selling leading up to the Russian hack of hospitals.
I work at a nonprofit in Hawaii that provides substance abuse treatment. We got hit. We can’t give them anything to get our systems back online. Anyone have a ransomeware attack grant we can write? Srsly tho. We don’t have $$$. So if you hackers see this. Please. Let us back in.
What piece of shit targets hospotals in the middle of a pandemic? Sickening.
A cyber attack on the healthcare system in the middle of a pandemic is no different than attacking unsuspecting moored battleships with fighter planes. If this was perpetrated by a foreign government then it’s an act of war
It’s begun. Expect cyberattacks on powergrid next.
Demo-c-🐀s hard at work again.
lollllll husbands hospital already got hit once with ransomware.....someone who definitely knew the hospital system cause they only demanded $250,000 🤣
Maybe now US feels what we feel wen Azerbajian strikes hospitals in Artsakh with real rockets during pandemic and war! StopAzeriWarCrimes StopTurkeyAggression RecognizeArtsakh ArtsakhSrtong
Russia once again trying to cause chaos in the US. Tell me again how they’re not our enemy trump supporters...
We have Covid and then this 🤔
lemme guess, Trump fired the govt folks in charge of protecting us against this, too.
NATO time for 5! natoarticle5
Putin just cant help himself. Hes sick.
And we're rounding the corner to giving up, so.... what?
'Healthcare system'
Wait wait wait, why is THIS not trending but friggin wine is? This is seriously important. Cc: PhillyD / MariaSosyan / neena__p / maddiecrichton /
This hit one of the hospital networks where I receive care last year. My name, phone, address, dob, ssn, and care I receive were compromised. I had no idea why I was getting multiple scam med-related calls and texts daily bc the network didn't inform until like a month ago.
Hobbled lol
This is what happens when we rely on China
Didn’t the government recently make a change, requiring health statistics to be reported directly to Trump’s White House by linking the system up with an outside agency of his (well, Jared’s) choosing? To be more safe and accurate?
rothschildmd Whomever they are they are terrorists literally trying to get Americans killed. The U.S. needs to act accordingly. Arrest them and if they can't be arrested wherever they are then release the drones...
bad_takes 'The offensive by a Russian-speaking criminal gang' ..so the Kremlin got it
The US started cyberwarfare. Now we’re getting a taste of our own medicine.
Sonny991Peach Putin of course
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Instead of do-nothing, Moscow-Mitch convening the senate to map a response, they’re wasting time with FAANG and SCOTUS packing. This could easily go well beyond hospitals during a pandemic into other municipal infrastructure as was warned by the FBI in 2018 and 2019. NO FUNDING!
PlainSite And people who got cyber security certificate can’t get a job !
Seems like a Trump set up. Hospitals
Put all our medical info online they said. It’ll be wonderful they said. Everyone can share info & be hacked. Cool.
When this happens, it's usually because of extremely sloppy network security.
To bad the ap, fbi and federal agencies have no credibility.
Who are doing it or behind this?
Oh no maybe we should nationalize them until we figure out what’s going on 😉
WeAteAllTheDodo Do you smell turnips?
Are their profits safe?
Man, imagine being unable to receive healthcare in America for something arbitrary or beyond your control.
Always hacking the wrong things.
GGG_says So what does the US do with that defense budget that is more than 10x the size of the next highest spending country? Obviously it's going to waste because they're not fixing a problem they are claiming is getting worse. Guess it's time to bomb another country.
They said this was a Russian offensive. Why are we not condemning this tomorrow at the UN? Omg...
Well when this country sits back and lets all the other foreign countries hacker elections into our power grids and does nothing I guess what else is there to expect get Trump out of office
This seems like an opportunity for an open source solution, similar to block chain...
polyhedral_die ohhh look the feds must want to pass a new internet laws the AP is works for the state department and the FBI or partners up with them all the time i bet they will say we need to pass a new laws that is already waiting...that will attack internet rights.
sharonschauffle That’s the October surprise...or distraction. We are still under attack.
Where is Josh Kushner
Remember when Trump and the GOP failed on cyber security? I do 🤔
Stop opening emails using work wifi on personal devices etc. Cyber security starts with worker competency. Watching porn at work isn’t a good thing over the companies network. Hackers need an open door. Lets start locking the doors.
Our federal govt resources are too busy fighting with Trump on everything to protect us from things like this. We’re distracted. Disappointing
Remember when Stable Genius proposed this? VoteThemAllOut
Are you f*cking kidding me?
Get your facts straight !! Old news!! Russian cyberattack on US and Europe a week ago. NPR reporter’s were all over it. In addition to hospitals they were targeting voting and traffic infrastructure. Cyber division has identified all involved and then some!!
Thanks Trump VoteBlue
I have no confidence in our government. None.
So our major IT companies worry about Joe Biden comments while our infrastructure is attacked. We are at war. China and Russia are doing a trial attack. We have no protection.
This sounds like Iran from that bombing they swore revenge for in 2019
The UHS attack has kept many of us awake at night.
We are at war and most people are too busy bickering about politics to even notice.
smells like Russia
CalebSlinkard Tell them to go ahead and delete my hospital bill info real quick that shit way too expensive and I ain’t trying to get wrecked on.
But Trump only hired the best people. How could this happen?
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