Cybersecurity
France Not Ruling Out Response to Cyber Attack on Hospital
- Rouen hospital hit by ransomware Nov. 15 and halted for days
- Cyber attackers increasingly attack health services worldwide
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French authorities said they may hit back at cyber assailants who’ve struck a public hospital, forcing it to suspend all but the most vital systems.
“The attacker is still active, and looking for targets in France,” said Guillaume Poupard, the head of the national cyber security agency ANSSI. He spoke on the sideline of a conference in Paris. “The French law allows us to be active against the attacker, to neutralize it. We’re not ruling it out,” he said.