Numerous hospitals were victims to last week’s (aka NotPetya) ransomware attack. But one hospital—Princeton Community Hospital in West Virginia–has admitted that it is going to replace its entire computer network after Petya froze its electronic medical record making it unable to treat patients. They could not restore the electronic medical record, could not pay
Petya Ransomware Attack Has No Kill Switch
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
On the heels of the WannaCry ransomware attack last month, a new ransomware variant, Petya, hit organizations around the world on Tuesday and stopped them in their tracks—including a major law firm. This keeps us up at night and we have empathy for our colleagues. It also has affected at least one U.S. nuclear plant’s…