Wave of ransomware attacks hobble 5 US hospitals as COVID-19 cases surge: FBI

By Gotham Rex on October 29, 2020

BOSTON — Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had…
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