Czech Hospital Hit By Cyber-Attack While in the Midst of a COVID-19 Outbreak (zdnet.com) 31
The Brno University Hospital in the city of Brno, Czech Republic, has been hit by a cyber-attack right in the middle of a COVID-19 outbreak that is picking up steam in the small central European country. From a report: Hospital officials have not revealed the nature of the security breach; however, the incident was deemed severe enough to postpone urgent surgical interventions, and re-route new acute patients to nearby St. Anne's University Hospital, local media reported. The hospital was forced to shut down its entire IT network during the incident, and two other of the hospital's branches, the Children's Hospital and the Maternity Hospital, were also impacted. The Czech National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) tweeted today that "the incident was resolved on the spot," together with the hospital's IT staff and members of Czech police (NCOZ). The incident was considered a severe one and treated with the utmost urgency because the Brno University Hospital is one of the Czech Republic's biggest COVID-19 testing laboratories.
Humanity? (Score:4, Insightful)
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You do what you got to do to make living, but now is not the time to forget about our shared humanity. Knock it off.
I'm thinking that you don't get to do whatever you want in the name of making a living. People who would attack a hospital need kicked in doors and knees in their backs. Depending on the damage done, and if people at said hospital die as a result of the attack, to be pushed out of helicopters. It would set a nice example for future asshats to think twice.
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People who would attack a hospital need kicked in doors and knees in their backs.
Sorry, but I disagree. Kicked in knees and doors in their backs, and we can talk.
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On the other hand, there is no reason a hospital should still be running Microsoft Windows at this point in time. Their leadership is making really bad decisions around cybersecurity which makes these instances totally preventable - this is a hospital's primary purpose - dealing with massive crisis.
Re:Humanity? (Score:5, Insightful)
Attacking a hospital at any time is scummy.
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Does it really matter that they're in the middle of dealing with a disease outbreak?
Yes. Even if you only act out of self-interest, undermining hospital's ability to deal with pandemic marginally increases your own chances of dying.
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Does it really matter that they're in the middle of dealing with a disease outbreak?
Yes. Even if you only act out of self-interest, undermining hospital's ability to deal with pandemic marginally increases your own chances of dying.
We should work hard to increase their own chance of dying more than marginally regardless.
Humanity?-thought before action. (Score:2)
Of course it is. Take one pandemic caused by human behavior, and add another bad human behavior equals a rather big lesson that all actions have consequences even if we can't foresee them all.
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Attacking a hospital at any time is scummy.
And yet, that is exactly what Russia and Syria are doing. Every hospital in areas not under government control have been systematically bombed. Sometimes several times. In fact, the UN gave Syria and Russia a list of hospitals so they wouldn't be targeted, and miraculously every single hospital was bombed.
Even underground hospitals have been targeted once their locations are known.
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I don't know who or what invented jerks, but you see, they made a lot of them.
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... knock it off with your assumptions that humans would be nice to each other when playing in virtual space...
If the good guys were clever
and the clever good
we wouldn't need law and order
to make 'em do as they should
- with apologies to Elizabeth Wordsworth
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If you are Making a living by attacking hospitals in the best of times, there is something seriously wrong with you.
Yes most hospitals are easy targets. A lot of data, with a lot of advanced interconnected equipment, often understaffed IT departments, and Healthcare software is about a decade behind the rest of the industry.
However their main business is keeping the general public safe, alive and well. You are just causing more problems collectively then you are gaining.
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There is special place in hell for individuals that would attack hospitals that are in the middle of dealing with COVID. You do what you got to do to make living, but now is not the time to forget about our shared humanity. Knock it off.
There is a special hell period. With or without COVID.
Hospitals are a very soft target because half of the more advanced equipment runs on Winhoze with updates disabled. It is an "illegal embedded build" - something for which the vendor should have used Windows Embedded and has used a normal Windows instead. They are vulnerable to anything and everything and quite often the hospital admins are not even allowed to tighten up the settings.
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You mean, like CNN's Don Lemon going off and having a full-time hissy fit, creating a panic while on-air?
Plenty of people are trying to profit off this thing. Sure, let's all stop attacking each other, Russia is using the time to squeeze the oil prices in Europe, Iran is attacking Israel with children's balloons with IED's attached knowing damn well they're not going to school right now.
Expect,more of this (Score:1)
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That's good.
No 8th in Russia.
Under attack physically and virtually (Score:1)
You all should have a long-term plan for that.
Keep your critical systems offline (Score:2)
Do an good thing at HIT US BILLING ONLY! (Score:2)
Do an good thing at HIT US BILLING ONLY!
Just F*** the billing systems in the us ones ONLY!
BURN (Score:1)
BURN-Karma says. (Score:3)
Karma dictates it'll be an infection of the viral kind. Were they'll be rushed to a hospital, which will subsequently be under a cyber-attack from their peers. Lather, rinse, repeat till message received, or no more people left to receive it.
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That is where most of these are coming from.
No law enforcement, mob state, war zone. Perfect place to host the C&C for a botnet.
Not alone: (Score:2)
My county health department got taken down by a ransom-ware attack yesterday.
This just after the local university announced canceling in person classes and all kinds of things were getting canceled. Wonderful timing for it.
Circumstantial evidence (Score:5, Informative)
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Air strikes? (Score:1)
Can we agree that it is time to execute the people who launch cyber attacks on hospitals?
I'm not talking about attacking the public school that got their facts wrong and expelled you for someone else's prank.
I'm not talking about a cyber attack on a "women's clinic" that delivers babies alive and does medial experiments on them until they die, and calls it "abortion."
I'm talking ransomware about hospitals that genuinely help people. Those people need to be killed. Any country that refuses to extradite them