Federal officials in the United States warned this week of the increased possibility of cyberattacks against critical US infrastructure projects, especially the healthcare sector, amid rising tension between Russia and Ukraine.
According to the American website Axios, the federal warnings this week point to concerns about email booby-traps, as health care organizations rely specifically on email for their transactions.
The Global Threat Report released this week by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike indicated that the threat of ransomware-related attacks to all infrastructure has increased by 82%, compared to last year.
Observers fear the serious repercussions of any attacks on the health care system, which is mainly concerned with confronting the Corona epidemic, which calls for more caution and the provision of an immediate emergency plan.
Two days ago, the US Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) announced that as of January 2020, repeated targeting of US defense contractors began by Russian hackers.
The agency added that these activities allowed the Russians to obtain sensitive information and classified technologies that are prohibited for export.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry and two state-owned banks have suffered denial of service attacks. The attacks have not been directly attributed to Russian-backed actors, but the state blamed its neighbor last January for a campaign that disrupted dozens of government websites.