Following the surge of cyber attacks on medical facilities, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and more than 40 other international leaders asked the governments of the world to do more to safeguard critical medical organizations amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter published on Tuesday, Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, and other prominent signatories asked the world's government's "to take immediate and decisive action to stop all cyber attacks on hospitals, health care and medical research facilities, as well as on medical personnel and international public health organizations."
In recent weeks, the letter says, there have been cyber attacks on healthcare facilities in the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Thailand, and the US, among others.
Last month, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ..
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