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2023 Author: Donald Evans | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 05:03
The hackers have gone further this time and have compromised the patients of a hospital. This is how they infected it with a malware that demanded a ransom of 3 million.
Specifically, for 3, 4 million bitcoins, the virtual currency, will recover the keys that have encrypted the system with a ransomware. 911 patients had to be transferred and meanwhile everything went from being digital to paper.
The FBI is investigating what could have happened at the hospital, although it has not yet been confirmed if it was an attack directed at it or it was really causality that infected a hospital In any case, it can highlight the security of a computer system as important as that of a hospital.
Data stored on the administrative and medical computers at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have not yet been recovered.
Using bitcoin for ransom
Although the FBI believes that those responsible for this attack did not target the hospital, they are searching for it as it is a computer attack. And, in any case, they will be worth it for the damages obviously caused.
The use of bitcoin to demand the ransom in this ransomware with which they infected the hospital is very logical since it allows them to maintain their anonymity on the Internet. If they had asked for payment with non-digital currencies they could have been hunted down quickly.
Now we will have to see if we manage to decrypt the entire system before the deadline set by said ransomware arrives.
