Ransomware and Other Cybercrimes in the Age of COVID-19

A few days before Thanksgiving 2020, three government security agencies held a confidential conference call with some of the nation's largest health care operations. Their warning was blunt: An attack is imminent and will target the U.S. health care system. The government agencies — the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health and Human Services — warned that an opportunistic assault was coming.

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