{"id":115338,"date":"2020-10-30T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/officials-warn-of-cyberattacks-on-hospitals-as-virus-cases-spike"},"modified":"2020-10-30T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:28:07","slug":"officials-warn-of-cyberattacks-on-hospitals-as-virus-cases-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/officials-warn-of-cyberattacks-on-hospitals-as-virus-cases-spike","title":{"rendered":"Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/officials-warn-of-cyberattacks-on-hospitals-as-virus-cases-spike2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers who American officials and researchers fear <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/12\/us\/politics\/election-hacking-microsoft.html\" title=\"\">could sow mayhem<\/a> around next week\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on American hospitals, clinics and medical complexes are intended to take those facilities offline and hold their data hostage in exchange for multimillion-dollar ransom payments, just as coronavirus cases spike across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect panic,\u201d one hacker involved in the attacks said in Russian during a private exchange on Monday that was captured by Hold Security, a security company that tracks online criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers who American officials and researchers fear could sow mayhem around next week\u2019s election. The attacks on American hospitals, clinics and medical complexes are intended to take those facilities offline and hold their data hostage in exchange for multimillion-dollar ransom payments, just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}