Security News > 2020 > November > Vermont hospitals still recovering from October ransomware attack
The University of Vermont Health Network is still recovering from a Ryuk Ransomware attack in October 2020, with services slowly coming back online.
In October, the University of Vermont hospitals suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack that impacted services to varying degrees in all seven hospitals in their health network.
On Friday, The University of Vermont Health Network issued an update on the ransomware attack explaining that services are being restored.
The University of Vermont Health Network was part of a series of attacks against healthcare conducted by the Ryuk gang in October.
These attacks led the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health and Human Services to release a coordinated advisory warning to the healthcare industry of imminent ransomware attacks.
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