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FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

Oct 29, 2020 1 min, 56 secs

26, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems at hundreds of hospitals, clinics and medical care facilities across the United States.

The agencies said they were sharing the information “to provide warning to healthcare providers to ensure that they take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats.”.

The warning came less than 24 hours after this author received a tip from Alex Holden, founder of Milwaukee-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security.

Holden said he saw online communications this week between cybercriminals affiliated with a Russian-speaking ransomware group known as Ryuk in which group members discussed plans to deploy ransomware at more than 400 healthcare facilities in the U.S.

One participant on the government conference call today said the agencies offered few concrete details of how healthcare organizations might better protect themselves against this threat actor or purported malware campaign.

“They didn’t share any IoCs [indicators of compromise], so it’s just been ‘patch your systems and report anything suspicious’,” said a healthcare industry veteran who sat in on the discussion.

However, others on the call said IoCs may be of little help for hospitals that have already been infiltrated by Ryuk.

“Multiple hospitals have already been significantly impacted by Ryuk ransomware and their networks have been taken offline,” Carmakal said.

One health industry veteran who participated in the call today and who spoke with KrebsOnSecurity on condition of anonymity said if there truly are hundreds of medical facilities at imminent risk here, that would seem to go beyond the scope of any one hospital group and may implicate some kind of electronic health record provider that integrates with many care facilities.

But there have been a handful of hospitals dealing with ransomware attacks in the past few days.

–WWNY’s Channel 7 News in New York reported yesterday that a Ryuk ransomware attack on St.

Going after hospitals, is this retaliation for what Microsoft and U.S.

Cyber Command take lead on this and go after the Ryuk operators?

The (Ryuk), They’re doing this because we did this to their criminal merc friends in Syria.

They are a small hospital, I don’t think their IT staff was up to snuff.

They have since hired a company to fix and secure their network!

They got hit with a double wammy, back in August they had their domain name svh.com stolen by some Chinese hacker crooks.

Brian, maybe you can explain how they got away with that one.

Anonymous tip: It’s people within Prime Healthcare doing the randsomware attacks, they commit fraud before, and they are founded from India, so why not launch some cyber attacks and cripple other facility.

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