Months After Hacks, DHS Sends a Warning About Hospital Ransomware (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Since February, at least a dozen hospitals have been affected by ransomware, malware that encrypts a victim's files until they cough up a bounty to the hackers. In response, US-CERT, the country's Computer Emergency Readiness Team, issued an alert on March 31 warning potential victims of the risks, and how to protect themselves. But, considering that some hospitals have already had to divert emergency services, push high-risk operations to future dates, and even turn away some patients, is the alert too little, too late?

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Re:So Govt Can Hack Phones But Not Ransomware

[PolygamousRanchKid]

Have you ever thought that the government is running the ransomware gang? It's more or less the same as the IRS. Unfortunately the woman at the IRS running the scheme plead the 5th Amendment before Congress, before she jumped out of Tante Ju with a golden parachute . . .