The Treasury Department in coordination with U.K. officials, sanctioned seven individual members of the notorious Russian hacking gang Trickbot, which has targeted U.S. hospitals and businesses in the last three years.
Sanctioned entities and people can't hold U.S. assets, and U.S. organizations can face legal consequences if they pay ransoms to sanctioned cybercrime groups.Trickbot has become one of the most notorious Russian ransomware gangs in recent years.
The Treasury Department says the gang was behind a wave of cyberattacks on U.S. hospitals during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. One such attack involved deploying ransomware on three Minnesota health care facilities in October 2020, disrupting the facilities' communications networks and forcing them to divert care to other facilities.
Trickbot members have also gloated in internal messages about how easy it is to attack and get a ransom payment from health care organizations,
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