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

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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Healthcare Data breaches Government Cyber Attacks 107

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Orange Cyberdefense’s Epidemiology Lab has published a report on cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector. While COVID-19 infections around the world are exploding, cyber threat actors are trying to capitalise on this global health crisis by creating malwares or launching attacks with a COVID-19 theme. Read the report here.

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Healthcare Advertising Cyber threats Cybercrime 103

Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Black Basta has targeted at least 12 critical infrastructure sectors, including Healthcare and Public Health. The alert provides Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) obtained from law enforcement investigations and reports from third-party security firms. . ” reads the CSA.

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Ransomware Hacking Healthcare Retail 118

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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Data breaches Social Engineering Malware Hacking 109

Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. hospitals and healthcare providers.”.

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Ransomware Healthcare Cybercrime Government 275

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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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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Healthcare Ransomware Advertising Cyber Risk 85

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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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. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service to malware authors to avoid detection, CheckPoint researchers reported. TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service, which is used at least since July 2016, to hide malware from defense programs. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The impacted hospitals are Bluewater Health , Chatham-Kent Health Alliance , Erie Shores HealthCare , Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare , and Windsor Regional Hospital. The attackers also stole a “limited set” data from Erie Shoes HealthCare including 352 current and past employee social insurance numbers (SIN).

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Ransomware Healthcare VPN Insurance 118

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

Conti ransomware targeted over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 in the US, and at least 16 healthcare and first responder networks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that the Conti ransomware gang has hit at least 16 healthcare and first responder organizations. ” reads the flash alert.

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Ransomware Healthcare Cyber Attacks Cybercrime 115

Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Security firm Avast has released a free decryptor for the BianLian ransomware to allow victims of the malware to recover locked files. The BianLian ransomware emerged in August 2022, the malware was employed in attacks against organizations in various industries, including manufactoring, media and entertainment, and healthcare.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

INC RANSOM ransomware gang claims to have breached Xerox Corp Spotify music converter TuneFab puts users at risk Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania Russia-linked APT28 used new malware in a recent phishing campaign Clash of Clans gamers at risk while using third-party app New Version of Meduza (..)

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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. The infection chain.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

Threat actors employed a new variant of the SystemBC malware, named DroxiDat, in attacks aimed at African critical infrastructure. The malware was tracked as “SystemBC” based on the URI path shown in the advertisement’s panel screenshots. The malware is 8kb in size and was used as a system profiler and a simple SOCKS5-capable bot.

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Malware Data collection Healthcare Cybercrime 91

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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Healthcare Cybersecurity Backups Ransomware 122

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The BianLian ransomware emerged in August 2022, the malware was employed in attacks against organizations in various industries, including manufactoring, media and entertainment, and healthcare. In July 2020, Save the Children suffered a data breach that was caused by a ransomware attack on cloud computing provider Blackbaud.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Organizations in the healthcare sector are at risk of cyberattacks, a cybersecurity alert published by the FBI, CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned U.S. healthcare organizations of targeted attacks conducted by ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

The BianLian ransomware emerged in August 2022, the malware was employed in attacks against organizations in various industries, including manufacturing, media and entertainment, and healthcare. GuidePoint Security analyzed the PowerShell script and noticed the use of the function ‘cookies’ with specific parameters.

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Ransomware Malware Manufacturing Healthcare 110

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers devised an attack technique to extract ChatGPT training data Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records Expert warns of Turtle macOS ransomware US govt sanctioned North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky Black Basta Ransomware gang accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022 Apple addressed 2 new (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

The malware targets multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, ESXi, and Android. Knight ransomware-as-a-service operation shut down in February 2024, and the malware’s source code was likely sold to the threat actor who relaunched the RansomHub operation. Knight, also known as Cyclops 2.0,

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Ransomware Malware Healthcare Encryption 63

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2024

Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A BlackCat ransomware attack hit UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum causing an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. A ransomware attack hit the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum leading to an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. healthcare organizations.

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Ransomware Healthcare Government Technology 95

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In October 2022, CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. The group claims to have stolen a total of 33844 files.

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Hacking VPN Ransomware Cybercrime 123

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

Upgrade it now! Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks.

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Cybercrime Data breaches Ransomware Healthcare 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 , sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybercrime Scams DDOS Banking 78

Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Now Abyss Locker also targets VMware ESXi servers Russian APT BlueBravo targets diplomatic entities with GraphicalProton backdoor CoinsPaid blames North Korea-linked APT Lazarus for theft of $37M worth of cryptocurrency Monitor Insider Threats but Build Trust First Zimbra fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2023-38750 in ZCS DepositFiles exposed (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. Researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant observed FIN11 hackers using spear-phishing messages distributing a malware downloader dubbed FRIENDSPEAK.

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Ransomware Malware Telecommunications Advertising 131

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

McLaren Health Care is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Michigan, United States. It is one of the largest integrated health systems in the state and serves a significant portion of the population through its network of hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities. BlackCat posts McLaren Healthcare.

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Healthcare Ransomware Manufacturing Hacking 114

Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

. “More specifically, cracked versions of Cobalt Strike allow Defendants to gain control of their victim’s machine and move laterally through the connected network to find other victims and install malware. ” reads the court order. ” Example of an attack flow by threat actor DEV-0243. .”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The birth of the BlackMatter ransomware was first spotted by researchers at Recorded Future who also reported that the gang is setting up a network of affiliates using ads posted on two cybercrime forums, such as Exploit and XSS. The group is looking for corporate networks in the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia.

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Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Cybercrime 138

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare).

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Healthcare Ransomware Backups Hacking 93

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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Firewall Banking Hacking DDOS 95

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S.

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