20 hospitals in Romania hit hard by ransomware attack on IT service provider Graham Cluley

pGraham CluleyppCybersecurity keynote speaker news and opinionppppOver 20 hospitals in Bucharest have reportedly been impacted by a ransomware attack after cybercriminals targeted an IT service provider As a consequence medical staff have been forced to use penandpaper rather than computer systemsppRomanias National Cybersecurity Directorate DNSC said in a statement that the attackers encrypted hospital data using the Backmydata ransomware a variant of PhobosppThe DNSC advises not to contact the IT teams at affected hospitals so they can focus on restoring IT services and data This is the priority at the momentppThe attackers are understood to have demanded a ransom of 35 Bitcoin at the time of writing thats just under US 175000  The DNSC has advised affected organisations not to pay the ransom and not to contact the extortionistsppThe affected hospitals all used the Hipocrate IT platform developed by Romanian software company RSC to manage patients data and track their progress from initial admission to dischargeppAffected hospitals includeppThe DNSC reports that 79 more hospitals using Hipocrate have disconnected from the internet in the wake of the attack The attack was first spotted on Saturday February 10 at the Pitești Paediatric HospitalppAccording to the DNSC most affected hospitals have backups of the data encrypted by the ransomware which should aid recovery But in at least one case the most recent backup was saved 12 days agoppHattip Thanks to reader Gheorghe for his assistance with this articleppFound this article interesting Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter Mastodon or Threads to read more of the exclusive content we postpp
Graham Cluley is an awardwinning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity hackers and online privacy A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomons AntiVirus Toolkit for Windows makes regular media appearances and is the cohost of the popular Smashing Security podcast
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