Hack Brief: Hackers Are Holding an LA Hospital’s Computers Hostage:
The latest notable ransomware victim is Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, whose computers have been offline for over a week. The computers will come back online, the hackers reportedly say, in exchange for $3.4 million, paid in bitcoin.
Cisco shuts down million-dollar ransomware operation:
Security researchers have disrupted an online criminal operation they estimated drew $30 million per year pushing ransomware on unsuspecting people browsing the Internet.
Source: Ars Technica
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