BleepingComputer, an online cybersecurity news site, spoke to UHS employees who described ransomware with the characteristics of Ryuk, which has been widely linked to Russian cybercriminals and used against large enterprises. Some of its facilities provide care for people coping with psychiatric conditions and substance abuse problems. A clinician involved in direct patient care at a Washington UHC facility described a high-anxiety scramble to handle the loss of computers and some phones. A different UHS healthcare worker, at an acute care facility in Texas, described an even more chaotic scene. Telemetry monitors that show critical care patients' heart rates, blood pressure and oxygen levels went dark and had to be restored with ethernet cabling.

Source: ABC News September 28, 2020 19:27 UTC