Hackers Hit Hospitals in Disruptive Ransomware Attack
Government agencies, cybersecurity companies fear catastrophic consequences amid rising Covid-19 cases
Hospitals across the U.S. are bracing for aggressive cyberattacks that could threaten patient care amid a national rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations, after security companies and the federal government warned that Russian cybercriminals had already hobbled operations at several hospitals over the past week and were targeting hundreds of others.
The attackers have disrupted hospital systems in Vermont, New York, Oregon and elsewhere within the past few days, deploying a type of malware called ransomware that infects computers...