{"id":44157,"date":"2021-06-11T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44157"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:40:33","slug":"235-us-hospitals-fall-victim-to-ryuk-ransomware-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/235-us-hospitals-fall-victim-to-ryuk-ransomware-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"235 US hospitals fall victim to Ryuk ransomware attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2018, the creators of Ryuk ransomware have attacked at least 235 hospitals and psychiatric inpatient facilities in the United States, demanding a ransom to restore files. The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-ruthless-cyber-gang-behind-the-hospital-ransomware-crisis-11623340215?st=52j32w13ihyohbp&#038;reflink=article_copyURL_share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In all medical facilities, the hackers\u2019 activities disrupted services and put patients\u2019 lives at risk. Some of the victims paid the Ryuk operators millions of dollars in total.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern European cybercriminals, who, according to some sources, are backed by Russia&#8217;s FSB, target large companies and government organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The ransomware spreads via email phishing, in which the TrickBot trojan is involved. Recently the US authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/55-year-old-rostov-on-don-woman-identified-as-trickbot-botnet-operator\">arrested a TrickBot operator<\/a> \u2013 a 55-year-old woman from Rostov-on-Don.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year alone, Ryuk hackers earned <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/whatsapp-troubles-150-million-for-ryuk-operators-and-other-cybersecurity-news\">about $150 million in cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than $1 million of this amount was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ryuk-ransomware-creators-moved-more-than-1-million-in-bitcoin-via-binance\">moved through the Binance exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2018, the creators of Ryuk ransomware have attacked at least 235 hospitals and psychiatric inpatient facilities in the United States, demanding a ransom to restore files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2005,26],"class_list":["post-44157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ryuk","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44159,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44157\/revisions\/44159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}