UK Cyber ​​Threat Agency Faced with Covit-19 Attacks

The UK Cyber ​​Threat Center (NCSC) stated that the agency spent more effort on the first post-lockdown attacks on the health sector in its investigations from September 2019 to August 2020. While there were 723 incidents in total, 194 of them were stated to be related to Covid-19.

In July, Britain accused Russia of stealing vaccine-related information through cyber-espionage. Authorities said there was a continuing threat targeting the vaccine research and delivery program.

He warned that aggressive Ransomware attacks are also becoming more common. Ransomware occurs when the attackers encrypt the systems, and as a result of this encryption, it is a type of attack based on blackmail to regain access to the encrypted data. Even if you fulfill the attackers' requests (usually money in bitcoin), it is not certain that they will hand over the data to you. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that they will not copy all your data (including personal data within the scope of KVKK) outside the company, that they will not disclose them after a while or that they will not attack your systems again after a while. The center announced that the ransom attacks using this method increased 3 times in the previous year.

FBI warns US hospitals that cyberattack threat is 'imminent'!

The FBI has announced that malicious groups are targeting the healthcare industry with attacks designed to lock down information systems and steal data.

Federal agencies are undermining patient care at a time when the U.S. healthcare system is facing an "increasing and imminent" threat of cybercrime, and cybercriminals have launched a wave of extortion attempts designed to lock down hospital information systems, which has resulted in increased cases of Covid-19 across the country. They warned that it could give.

In a joint warning from the FBI and the two federal agencies, they warned they have "credible information about an imminent and growing threat of cybercrime to US hospitals and healthcare organizations". In the warning, it was stated that malicious groups are targeting the industry with attacks leading to "data theft and disruption of healthcare services".

Independent security experts say that Ransomware attacks have occurred in at least five US hospitals this week, with hundreds more potentially affected

In September 2020, a ransomware attack affected all 250 branches of the hospital chain Universal Health Services spread across the USA. Staff described the chaotic conditions that hampered patient care, including prolonged emergency room wait times and downtime of wireless vital monitoring equipment.