MedStar Health

It’s assumed that MedStar Health is a victim of crypto-ransomware as MedStar forced a shutdown of their email and records database yesterday in order to stop the spread of the malware from encrypting more systems.

Most operations went back to the manual use of paper-charts and records.

It’s very likely that this wasn’t a targeted attack to the MedStar Health company… It’s more likely that this could have been a user accidentally visiting a website that was compromised with malware or a blanketed/random phishing attack.

Can you imagine the persons making the decision to shut down all IT? That couldn’t have been an easy decision…

The FBI was brought in to investigate.

• The Washington Post article
• The Tripwire article

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