Hospitals are still being victims of ransomware attacks.
On the night of February 11-12, 2024, a ransomware attack impacted 25 hospitals in Romania, disrupting their online health services. As a precaution, another 75 hospitals took their systems offline, bringing the total affected hospitals to 100.
Fortunately, the hospitals had working backups and were able to restore their systems and data to a state from 3 days before this attack.
Hospitals are classified as critical infrastructure, yet they remain more vulnerable among other crititical infrastructures.
Managers in the critical infrastructure sectors DO have to be aware of that cyber threats are real and that cyber attacks can cause serious damage to the environment and also to the society.
DO NOT think that cybersecurity is a waste of time or waste of budget or just an unnecessary paperwork. Do not wait for a cyber attack to realize it.
"100 hospitals across Romania have taken their systems offline after a ransomware attack hit their healthcare management system."
"'During the night of 11-12 February 2024, a massive ransomware cyber-attack targeted the production servers running the HIS information system. As a result of the attack, the system is down, files and databases are encrypted,' the Romanian Ministry of Health said."
"'Most of the affected hospitals have backups of data on the affected servers, with data saved relatively recently (1-2-3 days ago) except one, whose data was saved 12 days ago,' DNSC said.
The attackers have sent a ransom demand of 3.5 BTC (roughly €157,000)..."
"Since the systems were taken offline or shut down, doctors have been forced to return to writing prescriptions and keeping records on paper."
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