LockBit ransomware gang says sorry, gives free decryptor to SickKids hospital

Do ransomware gangs actually have a heart? Perhaps… Just days before Christmas, on the night of Sunday 18 December 2022, Canada’s Hospital for Sick Children (better known as SickKids) was hit by a ransomware attack. The Toronto-based teaching and research hospital reported that the attack had impacted its internal systems, phone lines, and website. The hospital predicted that it would take weeks before all of its systems were back up-and-running as normal, and warned that – although scheduled appointments and procedures were continuing – its clinical teams were experiencing delays, and that…