Police raid properties of alleged hackers who attacked hospital programs


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German and Ukrainian police raided the properties of people linked to a distinguished cybercrime group that stole tens of millions from giant firms and organizations over the course of a number of years. The authorities labored with Europol and the FBI final month to research the residences of members of the hacking group, which frequently goes by the names Indrik Spider, Double Spider, and Grief.

The group notably waged a ransomware assault on the Düsseldorf College Hospital in 2020 utilizing its DoppelPaymer ransomware. On the time, German police blamed the assault for the demise of a affected person who needed to be transferred to a different hospital attributable to systemwide corruption. It additionally carried out an assault on the UK’s Nationwide Well being Service in 2017 and took…

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