Help Net Security March 18, 2020
Brno University Hospital, in Brno, Czech Republic, which is one of the country’s Covid-19 testing centers, has recently been hit by a cyberattack. The nature of the attack has yet to be shared, but looks like it might be ransomware. The result? Some surgeries have been postponed and some patients redirected to nearby hospitals.
On Sunday, the US Health and Human Services Department was ostensibly hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that, luckily, did not impact the agency’s operation in a meaningful way. Its website, which provides information to the US public about how to cope with the Covid-19 situation, was not affected by the attack.
By now, those hoping that cybercriminals would spare healthcare organizations from...
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