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Republican Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday that he has called in the Vermont Army National Guard's Combined Cyber Response Team to help the University of Vermont Health Network respond to last week's cyberattack that officials said caused significant network problems affecting six hospitals in Vermont and New York. The team will work with the health network to review thousands of computers and devices and ensure they do not have malware or virus, the governor said.
Hackers are stepping up attacks on health care systems with ransomware in the United States and other countries, creating new risks for medical care as the global coronavirus pandemic accelerates. The three agencies "Have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals and health care providers," said the alert issued Wednesday, calling on health systems to "Take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats."
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Universal Health Services, a Fortune 500 hospital and healthcare services provider, says that it has managed to restore systems after a September Ryuk ransomware attack. The ransomware attack the healthcare provide refers to as a "Security incident" took place during the early hours of Sunday, September 27, and it forced UHS employees to shut down all systems to block the malware from spreading to unaffected network systems.
The boozy names might sound like the kind of thing conjured up in a frat-house common room, but malware families Kegtap, Singlemalt and Winekey are being used to gain initial network access in potentially lethal ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations in the midst of a global pandemic, researchers said in newly released findings. Kegtap, Singlemalt and Winekey act as first-stage loaders, which establish a foothold on a device before fetching malware for the next stage of the attack.
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.
Ryuk ransomware is being aggressively deployed to target US healthcare institutions, government cyber organisations in the US have warned. The caution comes as US hospitals faced an unusually high level of malware and ransomware attacks in spite of promises from criminals earlier this year that they would avoid targeting medical institutions.
The FBI warns of a threat against the healthcare sector from Ryuk ransomware, and one that's already affected some hospitals. The healthcare industry continues to be a prime target for ransomware, so much so that the FBI and two other government agencies are now warning this sector of impending attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware.
The U.S. government has warned hospitals and healthcare providers of an "Increased and imminent" ransomware threat, which some experts have attributed to cybercriminals from Eastern Europe. The organizations say they've received credible information that threat actors are targeting the healthcare sector with the TrickBot malware in attacks that often lead to ransomware infections, data theft and disruption of healthcare services.