“Cybercriminals are seizing the opportunity presented by the coronavirus crisis to intensify their activities. Hackers aiming to gain financial benefit from the current situation have made healthcare system operators their primary targets.”

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“The emergence of ransomware makes a lot of sense from a criminal perspective; patient data is no longer kept on clipboards at the bedside but in virtual folders,” said Selva Orejón, from Onbranding, a firm specializing in cyber investigation and digital identity protection.

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