12/17/2022 0 Comments Hollywood story hack![]() “This incident really sheds light how weak the core of many providers' internal infrastructure is,” said Elliott Frantz, CEO of Virtue security. In the meantime, executives declared the hospital in a state of emergency and employees are reverting to paper and faxes to communicate. In the case of Hollywood Presbyterian, however, the cybercriminals are demanding the hospital pay a $3.4 million ransom if they want their data back. But in other high-profile instances, including Anonymous’ DDoS attack on Boston Children’s and the more recent hit on Flint, Michigan-based Hurley Medical Center, the attackers acted as hacktavists looking for either the release of a patient or what they called “justice” for Flint’s water crisis. The Hollywood Presbyterian situation is not the first ransomware attack. ![]() Such attacks are particularly alluring to cybercriminals, in fact, because they are reasonably easy to pull off and have a big impact. Johnson said that it was likely messaging-based, whether a malicious link in an email or perpetrated via a social network and, basically, an employee fell for it. ![]() “There is no style to this attack,” said Kevin Johnson, CEO of firm Secure Ideas. ![]() As hackers hold Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s data and demand $3.4 million Bitcoin to give it back, experts say the “hostage situation” likely signals more ransomware attacks to come. ![]()
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