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| Top cyber official: Hospital attack ‘purely financial,’ likely by Chinese group |
| 2021-10-19 |
| [IsraelTimes] Warning of ’ongoing battle’ with hackers, Health Ministry cybersecurity chief Reuven Eliyahu says Israeli health sector is targeted ’tens of thousands of times a month’. Health Ministry cybersecurity chief Reuven Eliyahu said Monday morning that last week’s massive ransomware attack on Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera was likely carried out by Chinese hackers whose motives were "purely financial." "This is probably a Chinese hacker group that broke away from another group and started working in August," Eliyahu said in an interview on Army Radio. "The motive for the attack was purely financial." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Come on, man! We do regular backups. Everyone knows it is good IT practice. However, we never actually ran the drill of restoring a backup because who has time for that stuff? There's work to be done! So we never realized the dailies were corrupt and totally unusable until suddenly we needed them. I've seen this happen at 2 different companies. I'm guessing they are not the only ones. But don't worry! They'll fix it later when they have more time. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-10-19 14:49 |
| #3 Yeah, no one has figured out to backup daily, weekly and monthly. Laziness can be expensive. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-10-19 14:03 |
| #2 motives were "purely financial." Nonsense. Hospital IT systems are notoriously poorly managed and secured. They are often used as a gateway to hospital, government and other networks by intruders. By encrypting content [like access log files] victims must pay to find and block the intrusion. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-10-19 13:09 |
| #1 You can tell that they think it was from China, because nothing blew up in Iran. Or something. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-19 10:50 |