American Hospital Association November 9, 2023
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) this week alerted the sector to a new ransomware threat known as BlackSuit, which may be responsible for an October attack against an organization that provides medical scans and radiology services for almost 1,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and caused the victim to shut down computer systems and turn away patients.
“The BlackSuit ransomware gang is appropriately identified by HC3 as an emerging and possibly significant ransomware threat to health care,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “The use of malware coding with strong technical similarities to previous ransomware code associated with...
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