The Anxiety Encyclopedia

52. R is for Ransomware Attacks

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Kick your new year off with another reason Lorien and Katharine want to get off the grid (and then make their own grid because they could never hack it without the grid).


Sources:

  • https://apnews.com/article/ransomware-attack-hospitals-emergency-rooms-0841defe1b881b71eccb8826ed46130e
  • https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/ardent-health-struggles-get-systems-back-online-hospitals-reopen-emergency-rooms
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory#Intractability
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker
  • https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/feature/The-history-and-evolution-of-ransomware
  • https://www.getastra.com/blog/security-audit/ransomware-attack-statistics/
  • https://www.statista.com/statistics/1246438/ransomware-attacks-by-country/
  • https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-ransomware-attacks-against-critical-infrastructure
  • https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/ransomware-wannacry
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware_attack
  • https://www.blackfog.com/most-impactful-ransomware-attacks-of-2023/
  • https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207367397/ransomware-attacks-against-hospitals-put-patients-lives-at-risk-researchers-say
  • https://www.cisa.gov/stopransomware


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