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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

So, why would a cybercriminal use manually operated ransomware? This can show "good faith" from the ransomware group by allowing targeting and recovery of just sensitive files and not having to rebuild the entire server if the Operating System files are encrypted as well.

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Will FirstNet become the next Healthcare.gov?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Also in the 1980s a Harvard drop-out named Bill Gates purchased a piece-of-crap operating system named 86-DOS and used it to build a powerhouse company, Microsoft, which today still dominates the desktops of the entire world. And, of course, there could be protests after the contract award is announced, lengthening these times.