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Top cyber official: Hospital attack ‘purely financial,’ likely by Chinese group
[IsraelTimes] Warning of ’ongoing battle’ with hackers, Health Ministry cybersecurity chief Reuven Eliyahu says Israeli health sector is targeted ’tens of thousands of times a month’.Health Ministry cybersecurity chief Reuven Eliyahu said Monday morning that last week’s massive ransomware attack on Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera was likely carried out by Chinese hackers whose motives were "purely financial." "This is probably a Chinese hacker group that broke away from another group and started working in August," Eliyahu said in an interview on Army Radio. "The motive for the attack was purely financial." Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-19 |
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