Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

When we hear the words “cybercrime” or “cyber attack” we usually think of financial gains and personally identifiable information. In episode five of CISO Talk, Miranda Ritchie of IBM joins Mat Newfield and Mitch Ashley to discuss healthcare and.

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Appknox

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One of the most crucial things for the healthcare sector during the ongoing global pandemic, amidst many other competing priorities, is keeping a check on its cybersecurity measures.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ransomware continues to pose an alarming threat to critical infrastructure, with the healthcare sector being particularly vulnerable to its devastating effects. This highlights the domino effect that ransomware attacks can have on healthcare delivery at a regional level, categorizing them as a regional disaster. and globally.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 7, 2024

The unprecedented cyberattack on healthcare giant Change Healthcare has taken a chaotic turn, with allegations that the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang conducted an "exit scam"—shutting down operations after receiving a $22 million ransom payment from the company without paying their own affiliate hacker.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 21, 2024

The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare subsidiary last month demonstrated how appealing the data-rich US healthcare industry is to hackers, how devastating the consequences can be, and how sophisticated cybercriminals are. Why is Healthcare Targeted? It’s not the healthcare they’re after.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

healthcare organizations of targeted ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks. healthcare organizations of targeted attacks conducted by ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks. This alert aims at organizations in the healthcare sector because ALPHV Blackcat affiliates have been observed primarily targeting this sector.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The US Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack last week. Ardent Health Services is a healthcare company that operates hospitals and other medical facilities in the United States. The healthcare provider disclosed that it has suffered a ransomware attack on November 23. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

FBI and the DHS’s CISA agencies published a joint alert to warn hospitals and healthcare providers of imminent ransomware attacks from Russia. “CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers. hospitals and healthcare providers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

With cybercrime rising by 600% during the pandemic, businesses are more vulnerable than ever to the financial and reputational repercussions of cyberattacks. Costs of Cybercrime Global cybercrime costs are on the rise, increasing 15 per cent year over year, according to a 2021 cyberwarfare report by CyberSecurity Ventures.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

St Vincent’s Health Australia, the largest Australian healthcare provider, suffered a data breach after a cyber attack. St Vincent’s Health Australia is the largest non-profit healthcare provider in the country, The healthcare system was hit by a cyberattack that resulted in a data breach.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Almost four of every five attacks attributed in 2020 were conducted by cybercriminal groups, a significant jump from 2019, with attacks on healthcare or using the pandemic rising fast.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals. NextGen Healthcare, Inc.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to a new report published by Check Point, organizations in the healthcare industry have faced a 45% increase in attacks since November. Check Point researchers reported a surge in the number of attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry , +45% since November. SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare industry).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The healthcare industry might be known for the work it does to treat patients. With copious amounts of data collected by healthcare facilities, cybercriminals often target such entities. Moreover, the healthcare industry collects unique data, known as Protected Health Information (PHI), which is extremely valuable.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) hospital in Florida was forced to take offline its systems after a cyberattack. The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) hospital has taken its IT systems offline and suspended non-emergency procedures after a cyberattack. See our 12 pm update below.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

Threat actors are targeting organizations in the Australian healthcare sector with the Gootkit malware loader. Trend Micro researchers warn that Gootkit Loader is actively targeting the Australian healthcare industry. Threat actors also used healthcare providers across Australia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For a second consecutive year, the time for Kaspersky to make its predictions for the healthcare sector comes amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. A 2021 report by Constella Intelligence found that the number of personal data leaks in healthcare grew by half when compared to 2019. Several factors contributed to that.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns healthcare organizations of Royal ransomware attacks. The Health and Human Services (HHS) is aware of attacks against the Healthcare and Public Healthcare (HPH) sector. It has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. ” reads the report published by HHS.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Orange Cyberdefense’s Epidemiology Lab has published a report on cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector. In the context of a global sanitary crisis due to a pandemic, risk of cyberattack must be given close attention to by hospital and healthcare organisations. SecurityAffairs – Heathcare, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dark Reading

MAY 26, 2020

The global call to end cybercrime targeting healthcare facilities has been signed by government leaders and Nobel laureates.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At the end of January, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned that the KillNet group is actively targeting the US healthcare sector with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Not for the first time by the way—the group has targeted the US healthcare industry in the past too.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e. AgentTesla ). Attackers used a spoofed address mimicking the World Health Organization (noreply@who[.]int) Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Healthcare attacks: big business for fraudsters.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2022

As cybercrime reached record heights and more companies went digital, industries realized their current security efforts fell short. Healthcare is a prime example. The post Healthcare Providers Need to Increase Budgets for Cybersecurity appeared first on The State of Security. This […]… Read More.

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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. Romania cracks down on cybercrime group. Pentaguard" is far from the only organization attempting to take advantage of the healthcare industry during this time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

While it may be of little comfort – you are not alone – it’s equally difficult for other businesses to compete with the hugely successful and profitable business of cybercrime. The asymmetry of resources: It’s hard to fight cybercrime on an uneven playing field. Asymmetry of incentive: Cybercrime pays big time.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Healthcare facilities are under an increased threat of cyberattack, according to the FBI. In a joint cybersecurity advisory with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FBI warned of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2021

The ideology that a company was “not an attractive target” to cybercrime was a cozy pillow upon which many C-Level executives rested their heads. Privacy in the Land of Healthcare. Privacy in the healthcare field has always been a primary concern. There was a time when security was not driven by governmental power.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Ryan Witt, Proofpoint's Managing Director for Healthcare, who joined the SecureWorld webinar Protecting Healthcare from Email Fraud Attacks, also shared the sentiment that BEC attacks have a larger impact than ransomware. Witt said one CISO in the healthcare industry gave the following advice. "If To date, the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2022

Ransomware Trends Show Lockbit Most Active, New Tactics, Healthcare Hit Hard. LockBit replaced Conti as the most active ransomware gang and continued to evolve its operations in the first quarter, according to a report (PDF) from KELA Cybercrime Intelligence. Healthcare under attack in 2021: most likely to pay ransom.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Department of Homeland Security hastily assembled a conference call with healthcare industry executives warning about an “imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” ” The agencies on the conference call, which included the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

The cybercrime group claims to have stolen three terabytes of data and is threatening to leak them. Scotland’s NHS, or National Health Service, is the publicly funded healthcare system serving Scotland. The INC Ransom extortion gang added the National Health Service (NHS) of Scotland to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hackers targeted two French healthcare providers and generated the largest data breach in French history. The two medical insurance companies announced at the beginning of February 2024 that they were victims of cybercrime.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Change Healthcare, a major provider of IT services to hospitals, continues to battle the BlackCat ransomware syndicate. BlackCat has made the healthcare industry a prime target over the past year, victimizing providers, insurers, and now healthcare IT suppliers like Change Healthcare, a unit of Optum. authorities.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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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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