I do ransomware response for really critical infrastructure - like electric power, water, transit systems, manufacturing, oil for a living. I have to be mostly be emotionally detached, even when lives are at risk - that's triage.

Sometimes, when nobody gets hurt I even raise an eyebrow or raise a glass at a new tactic. But let's make one thing clear:

If you ransom a children's cancer hospital, you are irredeemable scum. You know exactly what you're doing, and you chose to potentially delay or disrupt treatment for suffering little kids.

https://therecord.media/lurie-childrens-hospital-chicago-ransomware-rhysida?&web_view=true

Ransomware gang seeks $3.4 million after attacking children’s hospital

Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago had announced a cybersecurity incident earlier this month. The attackers have claimed intrusions into more than a dozen other hospitals' networks.

@hacks4pancakes They're Russian government-sponsored terrorists. If they could blow up American hospitals like they do Ukrainian hospitals, they wouldn't hesitate.

Fascists are going to get their rocks off murdering people, and especially murdering the most vulnerable. It's what they do. The only thing they enjoy more is watching civilized people's confusion and disbelief.

That's who we're dealing with. It's like with ISIS, you have to accept that they're irredeemable psychopaths.