Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning of an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting government entities, educational institutions, private companies and the healthcare sector in the US and the UK. law,” the agency notes.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

United States government agencies recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing information on how North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are actively using Maui ransomware to attack healthcare organizations. What is North Korea up to? Mitigations for Maui ransomware.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2021

You would think that ExaGrid, a backup appliance and anti-ransomware service might know how to avoid ransomware, but it was hit. . The FBI announced last month that Conti ransomware had been used against the Irish healthcare system and at least sixteen U.S. million after it was hit with Conti ransomware. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

The Professional Finance Company, PFC, suffered a ransomware attack on February 26 and on July 1 confirmed that over 650 healthcare providers were affected by the breach. According to a notice from PFC, attackers stole confidential patient information including patient names, addresses, and outstanding account balances.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, fell victim to a Conti ransomware attack, forcing the organization to shut down more than 80,000 affected endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a recent post on its Facebook account, all of the corporation's public-facing applications have been back online since October 6, 2023, including "the website, Member Portal, eClaims for electronic submission of hospital claims, and EPRS for employer remittances." Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2024

The story starts on February 21, 2024, when an ALPHV affiliate attacked Change Healthcare , one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the USA. ” On March 3, a user on the RAMP dark web forum claimed they were the affiliate behind the Change Healthcare attack. .” Create offsite, offline backups.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The exposed database, containing more than 17 billion records, has raised concerns about the security of sensitive healthcare provider information and negotiated rates for medical procedures. states, Cigna offers an array of healthcare insurance plans, including individual, family, employer-sponsored, Medicare, and Medicaid plans.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Ransomware attacks and data breaches make headlines when they shut down huge connected healthcare providers such as Ascension Healthcare or Change Healthcare. IT should never be the top expense for a healthcare organization. The costs, affected patients, and consequences continue to be tallied.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH), a major hospital system in northern Florida, has reportedly been experiencing an "IT security issue" since Thursday evening, which impacted some of its IT systems. The hospital provides healthcare across 21 counties in northern Florida and Georgia. Backup your files. Educate your staff.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

While anyone can fall victim to these threat actors, the FBI noted that this malware has been used to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure organizations, including defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, technology companies, and especially organizations in the healthcare and medical industries.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

One of the biggest problems in the cybercrime section of the report relates to backups. Specifically: The lack of backups when dealing with hacking incidents. Backups in Brazil: An uphill struggle. Backups are an essential backstop that can help against several forms of attack, as well as mistakes and mishaps.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Early this month, Evgueni Erchov, Director of IR & Cyber Threat Intelligence at Arete Incident Response, told ZDNet that multiple ransomware gangs are cold-calling victims if they don’t pay the ransom and attempt to restore from backups. Patch operating systems, software, firmware, and endpoints. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

For businesses, this means implementing a comprehensive incident response plan that includes secure, immutable backups and regular testing to ensure rapid recovery in the event of an attack. For instance, a ransomware attack on a healthcare provider could lead to data breaches exposing patient information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

North Korea-linked APT groups conduct ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund its activities. Threat actors generate domains, personas, and accounts; and identify cryptocurrency services to conduct their ransomware operations. They communicate with victims via Proton Mail email accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. “The actors have leveraged privileged accounts to gain access to VMware vCenter Server and reset account passwords [ T1098 ] for ESXi servers in the environment.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 20, 2023

Hackers from the Vice Society ransomware operation managed to access CommScope's network and exfiltrate data backups from the company's intranet and customer portal. The trove of data was discovered April 14th on the Dark Web leak site of Vice Society, available for sale, an indication that ransom demands may not have been met by CommScope.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to those few groups, their cybercriminal actions would never include organizations actively involved in healthcare, such as hospitals. Unfortunately, we have seen these type of disruptions in healthcare before. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

One of Clop's victims was Community Health Systems (CHS), a Fortune 500 healthcare services provider in the US. Review audit logs and delete suspicious admin or user accounts. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Reset credentials.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The attack disrupted services at several Irish hospitals and resulted in the near complete shutdown of the HSE’s national and local networks, forcing the cancellation of many outpatient clinics and healthcare services. To get up to speed, I interviewed over a dozen of the healthcare security industry’s best and brightest minds.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

This should be a focus area for organizations to improve their defensive tactics, such as ensuring secure credentials and removing unnecessary privileged accounts. Although the attack against Colonial Pipeline deservedly gained news attention, ransomware attacks have increasingly disrupted the sectors of food, healthcare and transportation.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

” While that is good news from a healthcare perspective, the ransomware operators did obtain something of value. Phishing attacks often impersonate people or brands you know, and use themes that require urgent attention, such as missed deliveries, account suspensions, and security alerts. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Apart from taking over bank accounts, TrickBot has been instrumental in spreading ransomware across multiple healthcare organizations, and critical infrastructure in the US, especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This should include restoring from backups, client outreach, and reporting to law enforcement among others.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 20, 2022

Malwarebytes recently reported on the North Korean APT that targets US healthcare sector with Maui ransomware. In April 2022, the FBI observed a payment of approximately $120,000 in Bitcoin into one of the seized cryptocurrency accounts identified thanks to the cooperation of the Kansas hospital. Create a cybersecurity response plan.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Attackers are targeting organizations in the healthcare industry via malspam campaigns using malicious attachments. Some of them like DoppelPaymer and Maze groups announced that they would no target healthcare organizations during the pandemic. ” reads a press release published by the Interpol.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

“The department had reverted to its backup system, radio, to dispatch officers in response to 911 calls instead of its computer assisted dispatch system. . “We have learned the attack’s biggest impact is likely at the Dallas Police Department.” ” reported the website of Fox4News. reads the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

The group has targeted pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credential Protection: Prevent credential compromise by putting domain admin accounts in groups for protected users, avoiding plaintext credentials in scripts, and providing time-based access.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. QR payments are being tampered with, NFT accounts hacked, digital wallets emptied, and sensitive information compromised. Backup and encryption.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Some of these organizations are considered vital infrastructure such as local governments, financial companies, healthcare organizations, energy firms, and technology manufacturers. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2024

Following the February 21 attack on Change Healthcare , scores of people in the US have been living with the brutal, real-world effects of ransomware. They are always damaging and they always cause pain, but when they hit the healthcare system, the consequences—particularly the risk to life—are often more immediately obvious and shocking.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2022

Data Backup Access and Changes. The rise of ransomware and data wiper attacks makes data backups more important than ever. Access to data backups should be tightly controlled, and anyone attempting to modify or delete data backups should generate alerts or simply quarantine the device from the network to prevent widespread damage.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today, many people when they sign up for a new account for an internet-based service are asked to pick a password to help secure their account from unauthorized access. For instance, in securing your high risk accounts like banking or personal finance accounts, healthcare accounts, government services accounts (DMV, IRS, etc.),

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

The LockBit macOS samples analyzed by Malwarebytes seem ineffective due to being unsigned, not accounting for TCC/SIP restrictions, and being riddled with bugs, like buffer overflows, causing premature termination when executed on macOS. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark. Offline Backups. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. 70% of attacks were on banks.

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