Fwd: Hackers Hit Hospitals in Disruptive Ransomware Attack - WSJ

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I was in the hospital on October 23, 2020 and I can assure you that 

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Hackers Hit Hospitals in Disruptive Ransomware Attack

Government agencies, cybersecurity companies fear catastrophic consequences amid rising Covid-19 cases

Robert McMillanUpdated Oct. 29, 2020 7:12 pm ET

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.

Photo: Caroline Brehman/Zuma Press

By

Dustin Volz in Washington and

in San Francisco

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...

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