Reply to post: Re: La Guillotine

Bon sang! French hospital contracts 6,000 PC-locking ransomware infection

Blitheringeejit

Re: La Guillotine

It's a fair point that health data is a lucrative target - but surely that would be for theft, not ransomware. IIRC when the UK NHS was hit by ransomware a couple of years ago, the post-mortem concluded that it wasn't a targeted attack - just a scattergun malware mailshot which happened to land in a staff member's mailbox and was activated.

Unless someone who's better informed knows different..?

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