I’ve been wondering when The Pitt on HBOMax would get around to ransomware. The “business model” of ransomware is bad guys encrypting files in a victim’s database and not releasing them until a ransom has been paid.
I don’t recall the entry point of ransomware ever being a brute force attack on infrastructure, as presumed in this week’s Pitt episode. It’s typically a quiet intrusion; somebody opening e-mail with a malware payload, or being tricked into clicking on a link that installs malware.
One technical basis of ransomware is having a known file system, such as NTFS in Windows Server and Enterprise Edition. Which is why, nine years after retiring from a hospital information system software company, I’m wondering if this weakness has been addressed.