Feds escalate hospital hacker crackdown: 11 cases

US federal authorities have brought or advanced 11 criminal cases against ransomware developers, state-sponsored hackers, and insider threats targeting hospitals since 2024, including indictments of Russian nationals, North Korean state hackers, and cybersecurity professionals who moonlighted as extortionists. The escalation is part of Operation Riptide, the FBI's infrastructure-focused campaign against cybercrime, as US cybercrime losses reached $20 billion last year. If you sell security to hospitals, the attackers hitting your customers are now marked men with $10 million bounties and extradition routes that work—but your customers still don't know how to harden against the insiders the feds just charged, because those people work at security firms like yours.