The FBI and U.S. Justice Department last year thwarted attempts by North Korean state-sponsored hackers to cripple an American hospital—seizing $500,000 in cryptocurrency and ransom payments in the process.
In a Tuesday statement, the DOJ’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said the North Korean group hacked a Kansas hospital’s system in 2021 and demanded a ransom, threatening to cripple the center’s servers if their demands were not met.
The hospital’s staff paid the ransom after the cyber criminals threatened to double the amount within 48 hours, the statement said. The DOJ statement did not specify if the ransom payment was paid in cryptocurrency.
“In that moment, the hospital’s leadership faced an impossible choice—give in to the ransom demand or cripple the ability of doctors and nurses to provide critical care,” Monaco said today at the International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2022 in New York. “But they also notified the FBI, which was the right thing to do for...
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