FBI disrupts Hive ransomware: Hospitals among those spared

Beginning this past July, the Federal Bureau of Investigation – with the assistance of overseas law enforcement agencies from Canada to Lithuania and victimized asset operators across various sectors – seized the servers and websites of the Hive ransomware network, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on Thursday. 

The disruption makes hospitals safer against high-impact ransomware attacks, says the American Hospital Association.

Hive networks seized

The U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said yesterday that on the evening of January 25, a …

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