Even as a new epidemic wave is emerging in France, and as if the impact of the virus variants, increasingly present in the territory, were not already enough to maintain the pressure on the healthcare staff, here is the North-West hospital in Villefranche-sur-Saône (in the Rhône) has suffered since yesterday morning attacks from a crypto-virus, detected on the establishment’s computer network. And this only one week after the cyberattack targeting the Dax hospital center. Concretely, access to the information system and to the Internet have been cut. All workstations have been disconnected, with the exception of the emergency switchboard, and all telephony has been made inaccessible.
This kind of mishap has a name: it’s called a “ransomware” attack. Or when hackers demand the payment of a ransom to unlock computers. For the moment, we do not know the origin of this attack. However, this is far from the first time that hospitals or even other institutions have been targeted in this way. For 18 months, it has even accelerated with the epidemic.
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