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DHB attack: Why hackers target hospitals with ransomware 18 May, 2021 08:45 PM 8 minutes to read Ransomware hackers target hospitals because theres often an extra urgency to get patient files back from the cyber thieves: Lives are at stake. Thats why non-profit and for-profit hospitals in New Jersey and Alabama have paid cyber-ransoms in recent times, and why healthcare facilities in the UK, France, Australia and now New Zealand keep getting hit. Ransoms have reportedly been p...

Is it legal to pay a cyber ransom in NZ? The surprising answer 14 May, 2021 08:15 PM 4 minutes to read Todays hackers often want money to give you back your files (after theyve stolen them or encrypted them in a "ransomware" attack) or to cease a DDoS attack (a distributed denial-of-service attack where an army of bots try to connect to your site at once, rendering it inaccessible to regular punters). And their efforts are only escalating, because governments enable ransomware...