CNN (Russia behind) Cyberattack on insurance giant disrupting business for doctors, therapists

I'm going to tell you a story. This is the internet, so everything I say is simultaneously bullshit, and absolutely true. Once upon a time, a state funded hacking group decided to attack an oil company, and shut down its pipelines for ransom. They were pretty smart guys, so they made the ransom hurt, but not unreasonable. The oil company paid the ransom, but found out the unlock keys didn't work properly. Either someone screwed up on the encryption, or the ransom group tried to screw them, I never really found out that part. Now, the lesson. Oil companies are not small. They are often Global. They often work in places with less than cooperative natives, up to and including governments. They operate on budgets in the billions. they also buy, rent or own private armies from other very large global companies that can afford to equip these people and lure them away from the public sector work they do. A lot of these guys are ex-special forces of many types and nations. Many others worked in computer espionage. IE these are people that are perfectly capable of finding people in Russia, entering Russia, killing people, gathering intel, and getting back out again. The oil company was very unhappy with the results, and decided to spend money to both send a message, and to recover the ransom. so they paid people with the skills a lot of money. Those people by the way, still have contacts with, and work with the governments from time to time, so there is some level of cooperation happening to do things through "channels". Now, the resulting news coverage of these events is generally nothing, since no one is generally going to know in the first place, but there are clues. like a large hacking ring that suddenly goes offline, followed by reports that the FBI or some other agency has recovered a bunch of stuff from "hackers" (not necessarily named to the same group). If you pay really close attention, you also see that some industries have generally avoided being attacked, despite having the same weaknesses as others. Those tend to be the very large, multinational conglomerates I'm talking about. You are never untouchable. It's just the price tag to touch you can be unreasonable.