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 When I write or edit about these cases, it hits close to home because in 2021-22 I spent a long time in treatment for leukemia, and I often thought about what it would be like to deal with it as a kid, not as an adult. Anything that disrupts treatment — anything — has an outsized effect, physically and emotionally.

@jwarminsky

I'm a cancer survivor too, and I think the same. There's no justification for what they did. Is the system broken? Unfortunately, yes. Doing what they did is not going to make it any better.

Lesley Carhart has more patience than I do. There are some people who posted in this thread that got an instablock for their trouble. I don't tolerate idiocy very well.

@hacks4pancakes