The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. Talk more soon.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In an updated #StopRansomware security advisory , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has warned the healthcare industry about the danger of the ALPHV ransomware group, also known as Blackcat.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. Develop plans and playbooks. Codify procedures and processes.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The lurking menace of social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Millions of dollars have been stolen from healthcare companies after fraudsters gained access to customer accounts and redirected payments. The post FBI warns of criminals attacking healthcare payment processors appeared first on The State of Security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The FBI has issued an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about cyber attacks against healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. million payments. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns of attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that threat actors are carrying out attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 21, 2020

Cyberattacks against hospitals and medical facilities have risen this year, often via ransomware and social engineering exploits, says IntSights.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Cyberattacks are rapidly overwhelming the healthcare sector. Both large and small healthcare providers continue to be a tantalizing target for repeated ransomware attacks due to limited security budgets that lead to an overall weakened cyber defense system. By Tom Neclerio , Vice President of Professional Services at SilverSky.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2022

The healthcare industry has been no exception. Already, several major ransomware attacks have struck hospitals and other healthcare organizations. How does ransomware affect healthcare? Cancer patients at the center were also forced to look to other healthcare facilities for radiation treatment.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The healthcare sector continues to be a high priority target for malicious threat actors, as it has been throughout the pandemic. Broward Health, a large healthcare system in South Florida, disclosed a data breach that impacts more than 1.3 million of its patients. million of its patients.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

A beleaguered health care industry that already is a top target of cybercriminals is under attack again, with bad actors recently using social engineering techniques in calls to IT helpdesks to gain access into the systems of targeted organizations.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 18, 2020

This is particularly tragic during the COVID-19 crisis, with the rise in cyberattacks against the healthcare industry, the people working hardest to keep us safe. Pentaguard" is far from the only organization attempting to take advantage of the healthcare industry during this time. Romania cracks down on cybercrime group.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability. Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment. Healthcare providers are at the epicenter of the fight against coronavirus. In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta warns nearly 5,000 employees that their personal information was exposed due to a data breach suffered by the third-party vendor Rightway Healthcare.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. Therefore, all users of the device should focus on getting their device installed with the latest update.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In late October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) co-authored an advisory report on the latest tactics used by cybercriminals to target the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. Because it???s

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2021

The cleaner’s insider access takes care of the physical access challenge, while detachment to the organization makes the individual more susceptible to social engineering. There is an abundance of social engineering techniques, of which many are sinister, such as blackmail. The Faceless Man.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.” All lines of business except for: – Healthcare. – Canada. – Australia. – the UK. – Government entities. – Number of hosts: 500 to 15,000.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack. Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees. Summer of exploitation leads to healthcare under fire. Twitter data breach affects 5.4M Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack? 6-point checklist for an anti-ransomware EDR. Education hammered by exploits and backdoors in 2021 and 2022. Update now!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hackers can use stolen data for launching social engineering attacks such as phishing. Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D program from the website was leaked in the incident and all of those 900 candidates affected in the incident were being notified by the University via digital communication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

According to a study conducted by se-curity firm Mandiant, the group has been in operation since 2018 and has now been tasked with carrying out both espionage and financially motivated attacks such as credential harvesting and social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

In this new instance of the campaign, the threat actor has targeted users in US-based organizations in specific verticals including software security, US military, security solution providers, healthcare / pharmaceutical, and the manufacturing supply chain. Key points. Email analysis. Figure 1 shows an example of the email sent to the victim.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

She just happens to have a passion for cybersecurity and from this, she has become an active evangelist in the community who raises awareness about security in healthcare settings, drawing on her experiences at the front lines of working at hospitals in the Netherlands.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Note- In September 2020, many of the hospitals and healthcare firms operating in United States were infected by RYUK ransomware. Trickbot Malware distribution is carried out via malicious macros spread done through phishing emails and is also found operating as an espionage software sometimes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

PhilHealth warns that members are likely to be " victimized by opportunists " who can use the information to create targeted and believable social engineering attacks. Despite expending a lot of hot air on the subject, ransomware groups have shown time and again that they are absolutely not above targeting the healthcare sector.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information. According to a Ponemon Institute study, the data breach cost for healthcare organizations without encryption was $380 per record, compared to $230 for those with encryption.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. Image: @Pressmaster on Shutterstock.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The social engineering tactics are highly tailored to build trust before delivering sophisticated malware. Experts warn how sophisticated techniques could proliferate from geopolitical espionage campaigns to financially motivated cybercrime targeting a wider range of sectors like healthcare and manufacturing. "If

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This practice is said to be leading to social engineering based cyber attacks like online fraud and phishing attacks. Dark world is filled with cyber crooks who often prey on such events to exploit executives of multi-national firms.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2021

Some Italian healthcare websites and their backroom systems have been wiped off the internet by malware. The post Italian Vaccine Sites Shut Down by Ransomware Thugs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Big Blue’s X-Force security team ran an A/B experiment with a healthcare company in. OpenAI’s widely popular ChatGPT can write phishing emails that are almost as convincing as those created by humans and can write them exponentially faster, according to research from IBM that is sure to ramp up corporate worries about generative AI chatbots.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Social Tactics.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mirth Connect, by NextGen HealthCare, is an open source data integration platform widely used by healthcare companies. Versions prior to 4.4.1 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2023-43208. If you’re a user of Mirth Connect, you’ll want to upgrade to the latest patch release, 4.4.1,

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