The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned on Thursday that Venus ransomware attacks are also targeting the country’s healthcare organizations.
In an analyst note issued by the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), HHS’ security team also mentions that it knows about at least one incident where Venus ransomware was deployed on the networks of a U.S. healthcare org.
However, there is no known data leak site that threat actors deploying Venus ransomware are known to use for publishing stolen data online, according to HC3’s report.
“HC3 is aware of at least one healthcare entity in the United States falling victim to Venus ransomware recently,” the report warns.
“The operators of Venus ransomware are not believed to operate as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model and no associated data leak site (DLS) exists at this time.”
