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FBI warns of "imminent" ransomware attacks on hospital systems
cbsnews.com ^ | October 29, 2020 | CBS News, AP

Posted on 10/29/2020 3:04:51 PM PDT by ransomnote

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In my opinion, they are trying to hide the truth about the low Covid-19 levels. They want to fan panic and insist lock downs are increasingly necessary when they never were. They are also using to imply the same organization hacking the hospitals is hacking the election (RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA - the hoax that keeps on giving)
1 posted on 10/29/2020 3:04:51 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

You would be wrong. I work IT in a large hospital system. This is real


2 posted on 10/29/2020 3:06:56 PM PDT by Mom MD
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Who and what is the motive, in your opinion?


3 posted on 10/29/2020 3:08:55 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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Wasn’t the Russians who hacked hospitals and government offices. It was the filthy Communist Chinese. But hey, saying it’s Russians allow for the Democrat nonsense against Trump to continue


4 posted on 10/29/2020 3:09:55 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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Not sure I’d trust anything the FBI has to say. Totally corrupt as is the DOJ.


5 posted on 10/29/2020 3:12:20 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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I do not know. But the threat is real and being taken very seriously


6 posted on 10/29/2020 3:12:51 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: ransomnote

China.


7 posted on 10/29/2020 3:13:25 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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You would be wrong. I work IT in a large hospital system. This is real

I'm a network engineer and have been in the corporate IT world for over 25 years and 100% agree with you. I've had clients hit with ransomware over the years and they are getting more and more sophisticated.

8 posted on 10/29/2020 3:15:38 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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You would be wrong. I work IT in a large hospital system. This is real

I heard of this threat from a Secret Service agent.

Do you guys keep offsite backups? My company has had ransomware, but we restored from backup.

9 posted on 10/29/2020 3:16:19 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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I heard of this threat from a Secret Service agent. Do you guys keep offsite backups? My company has had ransomware, but we restored from backup.

The new variants are targeting cloud storage. I know of a university that got hit hard where the ransomware stayed hidden and discovered where the backup storage was then corrupted backup then hit the main network.

10 posted on 10/29/2020 3:21:34 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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To: ransomnote

The Communists are attacking on all fronts.


11 posted on 10/29/2020 3:30:18 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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FBI: “We need to get focus off our malfeasance, so we’re going to ramsomware attack hospitals!”


12 posted on 10/29/2020 3:30:59 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: ransomnote; All

I was a IT Project Manager under contract to a very large healthcare provider in Norcal.

My project was to patch/correct every server platform in the enterprise...over 20,000 of them...and provide “secure privileged access” for the various engineers who had to keep these platforms running and maintained. So that only these “privileged” persons could make changes.

The project spun out of a security audit that found, essentially, there was no security.

Policies were developed. Standard, secure configurations for all platforms. Audit schedules...the whole nine yards.

When the project kicked off immediately there was resistance and inertia from every single stakeholder. As the project stalled the CIO decided to change to definition of what “remediated” meant. The new definition meant that each individual platform owner agreed to perform their own remediation within 3 years. That was almost 2 years ago.

They fired me when I refused to falsify mitigation reports. Just like the PM that was there before me, and one that followed me.

Buddies still onsite assure me nothing has changed. The place is still an open book...would not pass even the most rudimentary security audit and 3rd parties are still granted remote, unsecured access.

Over 50,000 employees and over 10,000 beds.

CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE!


13 posted on 10/29/2020 3:31:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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You should whistleblow to HHS OCR who enforce HIPAA.


14 posted on 10/29/2020 3:37:46 PM PDT by socalgop
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My wife got an update today about email and password security. (She works at a large group of hospitals.)

You know some knucklehead is going to click “that link.”


15 posted on 10/29/2020 3:38:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It’s ransomware. They hold your data hostage until you pay them $. I’m not a detective, but pretty sure that suggests the motive is $$$.


16 posted on 10/29/2020 3:39:10 PM PDT by socalgop
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They really can’t keep up to the moment back ups of medical records like that. In a 200 bed hospital, the records are constantly getting updated. If it gets into the network it can impact the pharmacy and other systems. Reverting to paper for a couple of days would cause BIG problems.


17 posted on 10/29/2020 3:41:44 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ransomnote

The FBI is probably about to do it. They really should be defunded


18 posted on 10/29/2020 3:43:36 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: Mom MD
Wow. Not good. 😳
19 posted on 10/29/2020 3:53:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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Make sure you have good backups and this will not be a problem.


20 posted on 10/29/2020 4:04:47 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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