Security News > 2020 > October > Brooklyn & Vermont hospitals are latest Ryuk ransomware victims
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn and the University of Vermont Health Network are the latest victims of the Ryuk ransomware attack spree covering the healthcare industry across the U.S. Yesterday, the U.S. government hosted an emergency call with stakeholders in the healthcare industry to alert them to an "Increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers."
Later in the day, CISA issued a joint advisory publicly warning that U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers are actively targeted in cyberattacks deploying the Ryuk ransomware.
Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and CTO of Mandiant, told BleepingComputer that an Eastern European hacking group known as UNC1878 is responsible for these attacks and that they intend to attack hundreds of hospitals.
Today, an employee of Wycoff contacted BleepingComputer and stated that their hospital suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack yesterday.
Today, the AP reported that the University of Vermont Health Network had suffered a cyberattack affecting all the hospitals in their network to varying degrees.