The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

25, 2023— DataPivot Technologies , a prominent provider of Data Center, Cloud and Data Protection Solutions, understands that healthcare providers today are scrambling to solve complex clinical, operational and patient data backup & recovery challenges. North Andover, Mass.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022 report is against what is being urged by the law enforcement agencies such as CISA and the FBI.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2022

To begin with, all of today’s encrypted communications could potentially be at risk of being leaked and abused. Do you know, for example, where all of your backups are – even the ones made years ago? A single long-forgotten laptop, ZIP disk, CD, or backup tape – or even an old floppy disk!

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2025

Organizationsparticularly those in critical sectors such as energy, healthcare, and financerely on CISA for guidance on emerging threats and best practices. Increased vulnerability: As the nation's cybersecurity defense is stretched thinner, everyday users may face higher risks of cyberattacksfrom data breaches to service disruptions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

REvil ransomware operators claimed to have breached another healthcare organization, the victim is Valley Health Systems. Healthcare organizations are a privileged target of hackers due to the sensitive data they manage. The organization operates over 40 healthcare facilities with over 400 employees working across all their centers. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Bitdefender observed an attack on a healthcare organization, where threat actors encrypted Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server devices, including backups. This policy ensures BitLocker can’t be enabled without the recovery information being securely stored, reducing the risk of BitLocker-based attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

Third-party risk management is important because failure to assess third-party risks exposes an organization to supply chain attacks , data breaches, and reputational damage. This can include the management of sub-contracting and on-sourcing arrangements ( fourth-party risk ). What is third-party risk management?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Healthcare: Insider threats and error-related breaches dominate. Manufacturing: IP theft and ransomware are top risks; OT/ICS systems still lag in basic controls. Security team members need to help define which dependencies should be excluded based on risk factors, and define vulnerability prioritization guidelines.

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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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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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The group has been observed leaking stolen data, potentially putting individuals and businesses at risk. Security is a financial risk, especially if these vendors have access to your environment or if sensitive information (like PII) is shared." The third-party vendor breached in the attack was not identified.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 19, 2025

The attackers claim they deleted data, exfiltrated internal documents, and destroyed backups to inflict maximum disruption. The alerts urge CISOs to elevate monitoring and reinforce incident response protocols in light of heightened geopolitical risk. cyber advisories warn of spillover On the same day, major U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

All risks are not equal; some are potentially more damaging than others. This will be based on making risk assessments partly based on the pen test results, as well as how much resources you are willing to allocate. Healthcare companies must follow HIPAA rules; retailers must comply with PCI DSS. Are they updated?

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

The growing risks to your data During the third quarter of 2024, data breaches exposed more than 422 million records worldwide. Millions of customers were put at risk when their social security numbers, phone numbers, and other sensitive personal information were leaked. Document disposal Shred sensitive documents.

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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. Prepare for hard battles ahead. Indeed, hard battles are ahead.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

million in previous cybersecurity attacks against the healthcare sector. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Write an incident response plan.

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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. In the last 18 months, companies have been misled into believing that investing in backup and recovery solutions is the answer to their ransomware woes. More than 1.9

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Javvad Malik

JULY 5, 2024

The more I delve into the details of the Synnovis breach, the more I realise that this incident is not an isolated case, but rather a symptom of a larger problem plaguing the healthcare industry. Many healthcare organisations operate on tight budgets, with limited resources to invest in cybersecurity measures.

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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. The advisory reminds organizations that the U.S. What is Maui ransomware? What is North Korea up to?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data. Risks can lead to issues, but at the same time, you can prevent the risks by addressing these issues. Migration challenges result in incomplete transfers, which expose critical information to risk.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

It outlines multiple key areas of concern across 29 key areas of risk. 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. The most obvious one of those would be ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 9, 2021

Prestigious healthcare systems continue to be at risk for the next devastating ransomware attack or data breach. The Impact of COVID-19 in Healthcare Security Continues. The last year of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a striking proliferation of cyber-criminal activity against the healthcare industry.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2024

Ransomware attacks are the most significant risk for modern organizations, why organizations should avoid paying ransoms. Ransomware attacks are the most significant risk for modern organizations, with the Verizon Data Breach Report 2024 reporting that ransomware is a top threat across 92% of industries.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Social media account hacks are not only a risk to content creatorstheyre a risk to any business with a legitimate online audience. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Both incidents reveal the real threat to small businesses everywhere. Dont get attacked twice.

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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. ” -Ransomware Task Force, IST.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The UK government has highlighted a number of barriers to proper management of supply chain risks, including low risk recognition, limited visibility and insufficient expertise and tools to evaluate suppliers. This strategic move by the UK government involves widening the scope of the NIS regulations to include MSPs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 31, 2021

healthcare system struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been fighting another major battle – ransomware. Midsize hospitals are especially at risk, according to the study, Perspectives in Healthcare Security , conducted by Ipsos for CyberMDX and Philips. As the U.S. Preventative (Ransomware) Care.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

The result of this oversight may offer attackers a way back into the affected organization, access to financial and healthcare accounts, or — worse yet — key tools for attacking the victim’s various business partners and clients. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. .”

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Therefore, companies that suffer a ransomware attack cannot predict when they will be operational again because they need to eradicate the threat from affected systems and restore any backups. If health information is stolen in the case of SYNLAB Italy, it would pose a serious risk to affected customers’ privacy and security.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 26, 2025

For context, top US healthcare orgs recover in approximately 14 days. Directors are now personally liable for inadequate cyber controls, so they’re demanding clearer metrics,” noted Fiona Maher, a fellow at the Australian Institute of Company Directors, pointing to new guidance urging boards to treat cyber resilience like financial risk.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

The Register reports that healthcare workers are having to resort to pen and paper , alongside staff being warned of the potential for phishing attacks. While there is a backup system able to take MobiMed’s place “within 24 hours” of an attack, integration with other systems is not 100%. Train your employees.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Ransomware Protection: A Modern Approach to Backup Solutions. The resulting consequences have escalated, causing everything from food shortages to the inability to access critical healthcare services. Traditional backup solutions are living in the dark ages. Restoring from backups can often be slow. Sep 28, 2021.

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Spinone

APRIL 7, 2020

Cloud security compliance is a serious challenge, especially when it comes to protecting sensitive data in healthcare. That leads organizations to look for HIPAA compliant cloud backup , antivirus, or data protection software to ensure the safety of vital information. The importance of data in healthcare can not be overestimated.

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