Free Ransomware Help for Coronavirus Healthcare Providers

guest · Mar 18, 2020

Free ransomware help for healthcare providers during the Coronavirus outbreak
March 18, 2020
https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/35921/...re-providers-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

As hospitals around the world struggle to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, ransomware presents a serious risk to their ability to provide urgent care are to the critically ill.
We’re here to help
In partnership with incident response company Coveware, we will be offering completely free help to critical care hospitals and other healthcare providers that are on the front lines of COVID-19 and have been impacted by ransomware. Subject to our own capacity, we aim to provide this service for the duration of the crisis to healthcare providers anywhere in the world.

Our aim? Get affected healthcare providers operational in the shortest time possible so they can minimize disruption to patient care.
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Coveware: Free Ransomware Help for Coronavirus Healthcare Providers

COVID-19 Response: Free Ransomware Assistance for Coronavirus Healthcare Providers
The services offered will include

Technical analysis of the ransomware

Development of a free decryption tool whenever possible

As a last resort ransom negotiation, transaction handling and recovery assistance.

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A note to ransomware groups
While we will never condone criminal behavior, we understand why financially motivated cybercrime exists. We also know you are humans, and that your own family and loved ones may find themselves in need of urgent medical care. Make no mistake, an attack on a healthcare organization will have negative outcomes and may result in the loss of life. We ask for your empathy and cooperation.

Please do not target healthcare providers during the coming months and, if you target one unintentionally, please provide them with the decryption key at no cost as soon as you possibly can. We’re all in this together, right?
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A Note to Non-Healthcare Organizations that become Victims of Ransomware
We are all in the same boat together. Our priority at this time is to ensure we have the capacity to help healthcare organizations helping save the lives of COVID-19 patients. If we find the capacity to extend our free program to other industries, we will update this post and provide further guidance. Until then, please hunker down and stay safe!
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Minimalist · Mar 18, 2020

Kudos to Emsisoft and Coveware for this decision

guest · Mar 18, 2020

Ransomware Gangs to Stop Attacking Health Orgs During Pandemic
March 18, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...o-stop-attacking-health-orgs-during-pandemic/

Some Ransomware operators have stated that they will no longer target health and medical organizations during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Last night, BleepingComputer reached out to the operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker, and Ako Ransomware infections to ask if they would continue targeting health and medical organizations during the outbreak.
DoppelPaymer Ransomware
DoppelPaymer was the first to respond and stated that they do not normally target hospitals or nursing homes and will continue this approach during the pandemic.

"We always try to avoid hospitals, nursing homes, if it's some local gov - [...] If we do it by mistake - we'll decrypt for free.
Maze Ransomware
Today, the Maze operators responded to my questions by posting a "Press Release" that also states that they will stop all "activity" against all kinds of medical organizations until the end of the pandemic.
We have not received a reply as to whether a free decryptor would be provided if a healthcare organization mistakenly gets encrypted.
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Security companies offer free help
For now, if any organizations get encrypted, both Emsisoft and Coveware announced today that they would be offering their ransomware services for free to healthcare organizations during the pandemic.
While this help is greatly appreciated, I hope other ransomware operators will stop targeting healthcare organizations after reading this article so that it is not needed.
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Minimalist · Mar 30, 2020

Ryuk ransomware targets more hospitals during coronavirus pandemic

Ryuk ransomware is continuing to target hospitals and other medical providers during the global coronavirus pandemic despite some cybercriminals encouraging others to refrain from doing so.
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https://siliconangle.com/2020/03/29/ryuk-ransomware-targets-hospitals-coronavirus-pandemic/

guest · May 28, 2020

NeuShield Offers Free Six-Months Ransomware Protection to Healthcare, Public Sector and Education Organizations
May 27, 2020
https://www.neushield.com/news/neus...re-public-sector-and-education-organizations/

FREMONT, California (May 27, 2020) — NeuShield, which developed the world’s first mirror shielding technology to instantly recover data and files when other malware defenses fail, today announced its providing six months of free ransomware protection to new customers in healthcare, public sector and education to provide protection to these critical services during this unparalleled crisis.

This year, ransomware attacks doubled, accounting for approximately 80 percent of malware attacks in educational services vs. last year’s 45 percent, and 61 percent of malware-based incidents in Public Sector were ransomware attacks.
Likewise, the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled an increase in ransomware attacks targeting healthcare organizations, according to the Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team April 2020 report.

“We are proud to do our part and provide our award-winning ransomware protection technologies to those on the front lines during this crisis,” said Yuen Pin Yeap, CEO at NeuShield.
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