
Exclusive: CISA’s Jen Easterly wants to protect US hospitals following spate of ransomware attacks
Fox News
In the past three years, cyberattacks on hospitals have surged, threatening patients’ information and access to care and even resulting in some deaths.
"These criminal groups have been deploying ransomware against these hospitals, trying to lock up data, in some cases lock up medical devices in order to cause life-threatening conditions that then would, in their view, get these organizations to be much more likely to pay a quick ransom and have them make a buck," Dmitri Alperovitch, founder of Silverado Policy Accelerator explains. Jen Easterly in Army uniform (Jen Easterly) Photo of Jen Easterly as a West Point cadet (Jen Easterly) Liz Friden is a Pentagon producer based in Washington, D.C.
"It's been really an epidemic over the last three years with a range of both rural hospitals, small organizations and major hospital networks being attacked on a continuous basis by these groups and in some cases having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransoms."