The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Part three of a four-part series In 2024, global pressure on companies to implement advanced data protection measures intensified, with new standards in encryption and software transparency raising the bar. And industries like healthcare face persistent targeting due to their outdated systems and high-value data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2025

The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least August 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare. The group typically employs “double extortion,” stealing and encrypting victims’ data, then threatening to expose it unless a ransom is paid.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2025

. “Like the majority of ransomware operators, Spearwing and its affiliates carry out double extortion attacks, stealing victims’ data before encrypting networks in order to increase the pressure on victims to pay a ransom,” reads the report published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The group has extended its operations to countries in Asia and targets various sectors, including healthcare, real estate, construction, IT, food, and manufacturing.” ” The group uses an ARCrypter ransomware variant, derived from Babuks leaked code , to encrypt files after infiltrating a network. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2025

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. In September 2024, Port of Seattle confirmed that the Rhysida ransomware group was behind the cyberattack. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2025

The malware kills previous instances, deletes itself to evade detection, reads system configuration files, and establishes an encrypted C2 channel on port 82. It processes encrypted data over a RAW socket, limiting further analysis. The shell module enables backdoor access for data exfiltration and persistence.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2025

Targeted organizations span critical sectors including healthcare, telecommunications, aviation, municipal government, finance, and defense across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region.” .” reads the post published by EclecticIQ. “The earliest observed exploitation activity dates back to May 15, 2025.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

3 cyberattack led to unauthorized access, file withdrawals, and encryption of critical applications. “Preliminary investigations indicate that threat actors unlawfully accessed the Companys network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files. Qilin has targeted various sectors, including healthcare.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack Hacker attack disrupts Russian state media on Putin’s birthday Awaken Likho is awake: new techniques of an APT group Mind the (air) gap: GoldenJackal gooses government guardrails Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

Community Health Center (CHC) data breach impacted over 1 million patients in Connecticut, the healthcare provider started notifying them. Community Health Center (CHC) is a leading healthcare provider based in Connecticut, offering primary care, dental, behavioral health, and specialty services.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Attackers use packet-sniffing tools to capture sensitive information traveling between international servers, potentially exposing financial records, intellectual property, and personally identifiable information (PII). He can be reached at siddik.mtech@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2025

The BlackSuit ransomware targeted various critical infrastructure sectors, including commercial facilities, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. They were open to negotiating payment amounts, which were not specified in the initial ransom note but are discussed via a.onion URL provided after encryption.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

Details in our flash alert on CATALYST: [link] pic.twitter.com/oRHQzzIph8 — PRODAFT (@PRODAFT) June 6, 2025 The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least August 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Chinese cyber spies targeted phones used by Trump and Vance Irish Data Protection Commission fined LinkedIn €310M for GDPR infringement Change Healthcare data breach impacted over 100 million people OnePoint Patient Care data breach impacted 795916 individuals From Risk Assessment to Action: Improving Your DLP Response U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

from Bybit, it is the largest cryptocurrency heist ever Apple removes iCloud encryption in UK following backdoor demand B1acks Stash released 1 Million credit cards U.S. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Lazarus APT stole $1.5B

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Security Through Education

JULY 7, 2025

Even in today’s digitally interconnected world, the front line of information security isn’t always a firewall or an encryption protocol. Customer-facing employees interact with people constantly—whether they work in insurance, IT, healthcare, or finance. More often it’s a person!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts. “Guan and his co-conspirators worked at the offices of Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” reads the advisory.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Mo Wehbi, VP, Information Security & PMO, Penske Automotive Group: The Good and the Bad "The Good: Widespread Adoption of AI and Machine Learning for Threat Detection: AI will become more sophisticated and integral in identifying threats in real-time, reducing response times and mitigating risks faster than ever before. 'The

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2025

infrastructure International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks Threat actors misuse Node.js

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2025

The proposed updates to the Security Rule aims at bolstering healthcare cybersecurity, aligning with the Biden Administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy efforts.

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Centraleyes

MAY 12, 2025

In other words, ISO 27701 meets the growing demand for a framework that integrates privacy governance directly into ISO 27001s widely adopted information security management system (ISMS) without reinventing the wheel. ISO 27001 provides the foundation for information security, and ISO 27701 builds on this to address privacy.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

US authorities have issued a joint advisory warning of North Korea-linked APTs using Maui ransomware in attacks against the Healthcare sector. Treasury Department issued a joint advisory that warn of North-Korea-linked threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks aimed at organizations in the Healthcare sector. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. The post Information Security News headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data.

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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. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft. .

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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. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems that are increasingly used in healthcare. Healthcare organizations would need to evaluate their AI for accuracy, fairness, and security—similar to testing new drugs for safety and efficacy before they reach patients. for SecureWorld News.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Plus, he somehow encrypted the config, i.e. he had an encoder and a private key, plus uploaded it all to the admin panel. 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.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. The Meaningful Use portion of the HITECH Act provided healthcare organizations a carrot to encourage the adoption of electronic health records.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In December, 2022, the Office of Information Security and Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an extensive Analyst Note which identified BlackCat as a "relatively new but highly-capable" ransomware threat to health care providers. million in previous cybersecurity attacks against the healthcare sector.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Royal Ransomware operators added support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The Royal Ransomware gang is the latest extortion group in order of time to add support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Alexander hasn’t lost a step pouring his creative energy into studies related to the development of “ ” for healthcare applications – essentially using data analytics to simulate human organs, the better to keep them in tune. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Become familiar with the standards that affect your industry, such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). Assign roles and responsibilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The ransomware was originally written in Go language and was employed in attacks aimed at healthcare and education sectors in countries like Thailand and Indonesia. The Rust variant has also been seen using intermittent encryption, one of the emerging tactics that threat actors use today for faster encryption and detection evasion.”

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