Hospitals suffer new wave of hacking attempts – By James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal) / Feb 1 2021
Cyberattackers renew activity as hospitals roll out Covid-19 vaccines
Hackers are increasing their attempts to break into health-care companies, putting additional pressure on an industry already struggling with managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.
“The logs and the graphs show, oh, man, these have ramped up, it’s hard to deny that,” said Christopher Stroud, technology manager at Great Plains Health, a hospital based in North Platte, Neb., that serves around 183,000 patients a month.
Great Plains Health normally blocks around 10,000 attempts to access its servers daily, Mr. Stroud said. After it began its first coronavirus antibody drug trials in November, it saw that number triple on average, he said. Some days, attempts have reached 70,000.
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