When One Hospital Gets Ransomware, Others Feel the Pain

The article describes how ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations disrupt patient care and produce spillover effects across local healthcare systems, citing thousands of events tracked by Health-ISAC and specific incidents (e.g., Ascension, Change Healthcare). It highlights causes such as weak remote access protections and potential SimpleHelp RMM vulnerabilities, documents severe impacts including delayed or diverted care and possible patient deaths, and recommends basic cyber hygiene (MFA, patching, backups, exercises) and leveraging AI for detection and recovery.