07 December 2023

Costa Rica’s public health agency hit by Hive ransomware

All computer systems on the network of Costa Rica's public health service (known as Costa Rican Social Security Fund or CCCS) are now offline following a Hive ransomware attack that hit them this morning. BleepingComputer was able to confirm that Hive ransomware was behind today's attack after seeing one of the ransom notes. While an investigation is still ongoing, the Costa Rican government agency says that citizens' health and tax information stored in the EDUS (Unified Digital Health) and the SICERE (Centralized Tax-Collection System) databases was not compromised. Attack follow a streak of Conti hacksThe incident comes after Costa Rica declared a national emergency following Conti ransomware attacks that hit multiple government bodies, including the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).
The Conti - Hive linkWhile Conti is now slowly shutting down operations, it has partnered with numerous well-known ransomware operations, including Hive and HelloKitty, AvosLocker, BlackCat, BlackByte, and others.