Ransomware-as-a-service expected to highly increase the number of cyber criminals

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Until recently, ransomware attacks used to be carried out by highly skilled, well-motivated professional cyber attackers. The primary purpose was to obtain money in the form of ransom paid in bitcoins in untraceable transactions. But not anymore. Ransomware attacks became available to unskilled, malicious persons as well under the form of ransomware-as-a-service. Find out about […]

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EHR adoption is slow for a reason – Ransomware attack forces three hospitals to cancel operations

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Almost 3,000 patient appointments and several operations were canceled at three hospitals after a cyber attack involving a variant of Globe 2 ransomware, confirming once again the importance of the ransomware threat to Healthcare and, consequently, the justified reluctance to moving to EHR entirely. The hospitals impacted in this incident were part of the “Northern […]

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