The U.S. government says that North Korea is behind a recent strain of ransomware cyberattacks on hospitals and other health care facilities as part of an effort to raise money for the state.
J. David Ake / AP fileThe U.S. government said Wednesday that North Korea is behind a recent strain of ransomware cyberattacks on hospitals and other health care facilities.
The warning is the starkest alert to date that North Korea, which the U.S. has long alleged uses its hackers to raise money for state programs like itsIn its, the FBI, Treasury Department and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said North Korean government hackers have been using a strain of ransomware called Maui to infect American hospitals since May 2021.
“North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors used Maui ransomware in these incidents to encrypt servers responsible for healthcare services—including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services,” the agencies said. Ransomware, in which hackers encrypt a victim’s computer networks and demand a key to make them usable again, has become a lucrative criminal enterprise in recent years. Hackers behind it made at least $731 million last year, according to an estimate from cybersecurity company Chainalysis.
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