“The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting U.S. healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers and municipalities within the last year,” its cyber division said in the alert.
“These healthcare and first responder networks are among the more than 400 organizations worldwide victimized by Conti, over 290 of which are located in the U.S.,” the FBI alert said.
Conti, like most ransomware, “typically steals victims’ files and encrypts the servers and workstations in an effort to force a ransom payment from the victim,” the FBI explained in the alert.
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Ireland said on Thursday that experts were examining a decryption tool that had been posted online that might help unlock IT systems disabled by a massive ransomware attack on its health service operator.
The government said it had not paid and would not pay any ransom in exchange for the purported key. It did not comment on reports that the gang had threatened to make reams of patient data public next week.
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Ireland said on Thursday that experts were examining a decryption tool that had been posted online that might help unlock IT systems disabled by a massive ransomware attack on its health service operator.
The government said it had not paid and would not pay any ransom in exchange for the purported key. It did not comment on reports that the gang had threatened to make reams of patient data public next week.
Ireland s Health Service Executive (HSE) shut down its networks last Friday after the attack that it blamed on an international cybercrime gang.
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Ireland Tests decryption Key To Safeguard Health Systems After Ransomware Attack
HSE Ireland is attempting to secure backups for the compromised data from its IT systems, which has curtailed Ireland’s hospital services, HSE chief said.
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Ireland on Thursday said that it was testing a decryption tool that will help the software experts to unlock IT systems disabled by human-operated ransomware that attacked the Health Service Executive (HSE) systems. This comes amid reports that cybercriminals had threatened to make the patient data public, next week prompting Ireland s Health Service Executive (HSE) to shut down its networks totally, which obstructed diagnostic services.