I am using the numbers from the Wikipedia summary. I also checked to see if those numbers include long-term effects which is unclear from my cursory review.
I don’t know how many people are in hospitals with life threatening conditions but I suspect it is more than a quarter million, or even half.
Based on personal experience in deskside hospital IT browser vulnerabilities are a significant vector. We spent a lot of time re-imaging machines.
There have been ransomware attacks at hospitals including deaths. A coordinated attack using this vector could easily cause as many deaths as nuclear weapons have.
I don’t know how many people are in hospitals with life threatening conditions but I suspect it is more than a quarter million, or even half.
Based on personal experience in deskside hospital IT browser vulnerabilities are a significant vector. We spent a lot of time re-imaging machines.
There have been ransomware attacks at hospitals including deaths. A coordinated attack using this vector could easily cause as many deaths as nuclear weapons have.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hospitals-b...