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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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Healthcare delivery organizations are increasingly deploying medical devices, IoT, and other medical platforms to improve connectivity and support patient care. Weak cybersecurity evaluations, inappropriate network segmentation, and legacy devices expand the healthcare threat landscape. The rise of mobile healthcare.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Hipocrate Information System (HIS) is a software suite designed to manage the medical and administrative activities of hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Authorities in Romania confirmed that a ransomware attack that targeted the Hipocrate Information System (HIS) has disrupted operations for at least 100 hospitals.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. In the twelve months between October 2022 and September 2023, there were 213 known attacks against the healthcare sector, making it the ninth most attacked sector globally.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

“Others have gotten the message about the need for good backups, and probably don’t need to pay. Disable RDP: Short for Remote Desktop Protocol, this feature of Windows allows a system to be remotely administered over the Internet. It may be worth hiring a competent security firm to make sure this is done right.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos is also able to identify and delete data backups. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 11, 2023

The healthcare facilities located in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, and California had the ransomware attack confirmed by the FBI. On many occasions where a medical facility or healthcare provider has been attacked, those responsible will apologise and provide free decryption tools. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The crooks running the Trickbot botnet typically use these config files to pass new instructions to their fleet of infected PCs, such as the Internet address where hacked systems should download new updates to the malware. But the new configuration file pushed on Sept. On Sunday, Sept.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2023

Have targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including manufacturing, communications, healthcare, and education. This could be through websites or other applications with internet accessible open sockets by exploiting known vulnerabilities or common security misconfigurations. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2023

It is no secret that healthcare providers are attractive targets to ransomware gangs. But cybercriminals behaving like criminals isn’t something we should be shocked about, and attacks on healthcare providers have been on the rise ever since. Create offsite, offline backups. Prevent intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The Russian-linked Clop ransomware group says it was able to remotely attack private systems using exposed GoAnywhere MFT administration consoles accessible on the public internet. One of Clop's victims was Community Health Systems (CHS), a Fortune 500 healthcare services provider in the US. Create offsite, offline backups.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. Create and test offline, offsite backups that are beyond the reach of attackers.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

According to Interpol's Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment report , critical infrastructure is highly targeted by ransomware gangs that are after what is called the Big Game Hunting. This is certainly an option for organizations with well-defined backup and remediation processes. Healthcare sector. The threat landscape.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2023

DoppelPaymer is a mostly enterprise-targeting ransomware with targets including healthcare, emergency services, and education. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. DoppelPaymer is a ransomware group that has been linked to Russia , the EvilCorp group , and Emotet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. Other than different antivirus and not allowing RDP connections to the internet they don’t seem to have put any additional safeguards in place.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

Irish Health Service official known as the Health Service Executive (HSE) a government-funded healthcare system was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday this week bringing the testing and treatment of Covid 19 patients to a halt. The post Ransomware attack on Ireland Health Service HSE appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The attackers successfully compromised more than a dozen organizations across multiple industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, education, finance and defense. SockDetour serves as a backup fileless Windows backdoor in case the primary one is removed.

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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. Recent scans showed that around 1,000 administrative consoles are publicly exposed to the internet. Create offsite, offline backups.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2023

Good backups often restore encrypted systems faster and more effectively than paying a ransom for a decryptor provided by the criminals. For example, for some time researchers were under the impression that SamSam ransomware, one of the earliest "big game" ransomware gangs, specifically targeted healthcare providers.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The best defense and the best option for recovery will always be the availability of sufficient, isolated data backups and a practiced restoration process. However, even with the best planning, organizations can find a few users, machines, or systems that were overlooked or whose backup may be corrupted or encrypted.

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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. Require phishing-resistant MFA for as many services as possible—particularly for webmail, VPNs, accounts that access critical systems, and privileged accounts that manage backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Speaking briefly to the media after the announcement of the investment, Macron said that attacks on healthcare facilities have shown how vulnerable the infrastructure is and how vital is it for the government to strengthen them to meet up the demand.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

” While that is good news from a healthcare perspective, the ransomware operators did obtain something of value. Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Create offsite, offline backups. Prevent intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Even though this initiative is relatively young, CISA says it has notified over 60 entities across the energy, healthcare, water/wastewater, education, and other sectors about potential pre-ransomware intrusions, and we’ve confirmed that many of them identified and remediated the intrusion before encryption or data loss occurred.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

The company that is into the development of equipment and software for emergency care and healthcare data management identified the activity to be existing from the first week of February 2nd, 2023, leading to illegal access of names, addresses, DOBs and social security numbers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Screenshot example. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Recent years have seen the internet swarmed with several variants of ransomware with names like Cryptolocker, Locky, KeRanger, CryptoWall and TeslaCrypt. Initially targeting consumers, these scripts increasingly target victims with highly sensitive, high-value data such as healthcare, banking, legal and financial institutions.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

Grixba checks for antivirus programs, EDR suites, backup tools to help them plan the next steps of the attack. VSS Copying Tool, meanwhile, tiptoes around the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to steal files from system snapshots and backup copies. Create offsite, offline backups. Prevent intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. From manufacturing to healthcare, tons of industries today are using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to help streamline their operations — and at the heart of every IoT device is Linux. How it works.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The infection chain was divided into four stages : The malware was installed through a dropper, a program executed by opening an attachment to a deceptive e-mail, probably a fake pdf or doc file, or executed directly from the Internet, without user interaction, exploiting the exploit described in the point 4. What should we learn from this?

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