Finger Lakes Health, of Geneva, New York was infected with an unknown ransomware variant on March 18, 2018.\u00a0 Therefore, the medical facility’s systems were left completely encrypted, with an unknown third-party demanding a ransom payment.\u00a0 The amount of the payment has not been disclosed, and it remains unclear if Finger Lakes plans to make the payment.\u00a0 According to Becker Hospital Review<\/a>, the facility is working to regain access to their systems with IT professionals and law enforcement.<\/p>\n Officials for Finger Lakes Health do not believe any patient data was compromised.\u00a0 Their systems will remain offline while they attempt to remediate.\u00a0 In the meantime, staff has gone back to paper filing.\u00a0 Finger Lakes Health spokesperson stated to Becker Hospital Review<\/a>,<\/p>\n “We immediately implemented our manual downtime protocol and procedures which we have practiced for circumstances when computer access is limited.\u00a0 We, like many other health systems and businesses, have prepared for this inevitability due to the increase in these types of incidents.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n One word sticks out, “inevitability”.\u00a0 Ransomware is not an inevitable event, if you have the right security protection<\/a>.\u00a0 It is clear, traditional blacklist security solutions cannot keep up with known malicious cyber threats.\u00a0 It is clear it is not an effective means to protect your most precious data.\u00a0 Ransomware, or any other cyber threat, does not have to be inevitable.\u00a0 It’s preventable, when a proactive solution is implemented.\u00a0 It’s time for a different approach.\u00a0 It is time to start\u00a0using a security solution that uses an automated, global whitelist solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a list of ransomware attacks that have already taken place in 2018, you may click here<\/a>. We have also created a map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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