Ransomware attack on Hancock Health drives providers to pen and paper

According to local press Greenfield Daily Reporter, Hancock Health Company in Greenfield, Indiana was attacked by Ransomware on Thursday night, the authorities shut down the whole network.

The network began to run late on Thursday night and was just after the Ransomware notice was displayed on the hospital computer screen. Hacker said part of the system hostage will take before officials pay bitcoin to pay the ransom.

The IT team of the medical system immediately shut down the network including clinics and medical centers to isolate the virus. According to officials, hackers seem to be using "digital padlocks" to restrict access to certain parts of the system and to stop hospital operations.

Hancock issued a system outage notification at the entrance of the hospital and instructed the employee to shut down all the computers on the network. The provider will repair the pen and paper to record the patient's visit. There is no cancellation or procedure by cyber attack

One staff said that the attack is not complicated, not because the employee opened the infected e-mail.

"This is not a 15-year-old child sitting in the mother's cellar," Hancock Health CEO Steve Lang told reporters at the Greenland Daily.

Hancock cooperated with FBI and IT security company to exterminate virus and law enforcement department worked as "consultant".

Hancock official told medical IT news they are currently working on recovery and will provide up-to-date information within a few days

Security experts warn that Ransomware will continue to plague the industry this year and that hackers will increase the complexity of attack methods. With improved user education and security defense, the profitability of Ransomware has declined

Mr. Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee, said, "With regard to Ransomware, the healthcare industry is likely to suffer the most damage." "What is being watched today is the destructive spread of the Ransomware.

McAfee predicts that hackers will transition from traditional form of Ransomware to network disruption and service disruption.

Allscripts' customers are not the only healthcare providers recently attacked by the same Ransomware. On January 11, Adams Health Network based in Decatur, Indiana, was attacked and Hancock Health in Greenfield, Indiana was also attacked. Hancock Health decided to pay a ransom of 4 bit coin (approximately $ 47,000) to regain patient's medical files and corporate e-mails. The hospital thinks that payment is cheaper and less confusing than rebuilding the IT system. Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at the hospital stated that "the amount of ransom is reasonable from the standpoint of cost of not being able to treat the patient by extending downtime." Hancock's health has been hit again, now the public price of that data is fixed

Since 2005, Ransomware is one of the biggest threats. Since 2005, the first ran - gamware attack has occurred long ago. According to a review of Becker 's hospital, the first recorded ran - gam wear attacks took place in 1989 for the purpose of the medical industry. The rapid development of the medical industry is still the main purpose of Ransomware attack. The first Ransomware attack was called PC Cyborg or AIDS Trojan sponsored by AIDS researcher Dr. Joseph Popp in 1989. He spreads the virus to over 90 countries by offering AIDS researchers 20,000 floppy disks. He insists that floppy disks contain programs that use surveys to investigate the risk of individual AIDS onset. However, since the disk is hidden behind a malware program and initially hibernated on the computer, it can only be activated after activating the computer 90 times.

Dox wear is the reverse of the Ransomware. In the RANSAM wear attack (originally called encrypted virus RANSOMEWARE), malware encrypts the victim's data and requests payment to provide the necessary decryption key. In doxware encryption virus attacks, an attacker or malware threatens to disclose it unless payment is made, stealing the victim's data. Basic Web search can produce results. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkedin, etc. are secure because many users conduct advanced self-disclosure (sharing photos, workplaces, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses), so rich personal information . You can also obtain the name of a person and the address of your home from a mobile phone number by using services such as reverse phone call. Social engineering has been used to extract information from government agencies and telephone companies