These criminal groups, there are quite a few of them, they operate freely from within Russia, they give themselves high profile names, they've got websites on the so-called dark web and this particular group has about a two-year history of attacking various organizations across the world.
He said it is unlikely the Russian hackers would have known they would cause such serious primary healthcare disruption when they set out to do the attack.
It's the more serious type of ransomware where the system just doesn't work. So, if you're working in healthcare in this trust, you're just not getting those results so it's actually seriously disruptive.
This type of ransomware has affected healthcare all over the world. It's particularly damaging in the United States, and where this type of cyber attack is different in terms of its impact from others, is that it does affect people's healthcare.
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