Security News > 2020 > March > Oh-so-generous ransomware crooks vow to hold back from health organisations during COVID-19 crisis
Ransomware operators of DoppelPaymer and Maze malware stated that they will not target medical organisations during the current pandemic.
Laurence Abrams, who runs the security news site Bleeping Computer, reports that he made contact with "The operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker, and Ako Ransomware infections to ask if they would continue targeting health and medical organizations during the outbreak."
According to security company Coveware, the top ransomware types at the end of 2019 were Sodinokibi, Ryuk, Phobos, Dharma and DopplePaymer.
What needs to be done? In its report on ransomware in 2019 in the US, Emsisoft said lax security standards were largely to blame, noting that "[while] 966 government agencies, educational establishments and healthcare providers were impacted by ransomware in 2019, not a single bank disclosed a ransomware incident.
Security is hard and can be inconvenient, but getting some basic best practices in place might at least reduce the number of times ransomware slingers rake in the cash and crow over their "Success".