A year ago it was just a subordinate clause, now it is an explicit warning: more and more often hospitals and other health care facilities are being targeted by cyber criminals. Especially ransomware blackmailers represent an extremely high danger. This is shown by the current situation report on IT security in Germany, which was published by the responsible Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in October 2020. The sheer number of malware programs now even exceeds the billion mark: in the reporting period between June 2019 and May 2020 alone, 117.4 million new variants of known malware were added; the combination of emotet, trick bot and ransomware Ryuk was particularly active.

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