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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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

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Pro-Russia group Killnet is launching a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The Pro-Russia group Killnet launched a series of DDoS attacks against US healthcare organizations and hospitals. In the last week, the pro-Russia group intensified its activity.

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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. The government agencies receive information about imminent attacks, threat actors are using the TrickBot botnet to deliver the infamous ransomware to the infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The FBI has issued an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about cyber attacks against healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. million payments. ” reads the alert.

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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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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Cisco Talos researchers tracked the campaign as Operation Blacksmith, the nation-state actors are employing at least three new DLang -based malware families. Two of these malware strains are remote access trojans (RATs), respectively tracked as NineRAT and “DLRAT” The former relies on Telegram bots and channels for C2 communications.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. In August 2020, Guardicore Labs researchers published a detailed analysis of the threat, at the time the malware infected over 500 servers in the U.S. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

In the attacks observed by Symantec, the REvil ransomware operators used the Cobalt Strike penetration testing toolkit to deploy their malware. The attack was successful in three cases against companies from the services, food, and healthcare industry sectors. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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

MAY 9, 2020

Nigerian cyber gang SilverTerrier, specialized in BEC attacks, used COVID-19 lures in recent attacks on healthcare and government organizations. 30), we have observed three SilverTerrier actors/groups launch a series of 10 COVID-19 themed malware campaigns.” “Over the past 90 days (Jan. 111 for command and control.

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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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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 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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Researchers at ESET say this job offer from a phony HSBC recruiter on LinkedIn was North Korean malware masquerading as a PDF file. 3CX says it has more than 600,000 customers and 12 million users in a broad range of industries, including aerospace, healthcare and hospitality. Image: Mandiant.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 14, 2022

“Information security analyst” tops the U.S. The list ranks the 100 best jobs across 17 sectors including business, healthcare and technology, taking into account factors such as growth potential, salary and work-life balance. News & World Report 2022 Best Jobs list. Tough Contenders.

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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

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

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA) began a weeks-long operation in which it seized control over the Trickbot botnet , a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ransomware. Conti is one of several cybercrime groups that has regularly used Trickbot to deploy malware. 428 hospitals.”

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a larger review of how security — or the lack thereof — may be impacting patient outcomes. Or how many hospitals and practices experienced delays in getting test results back needed to make critical healthcare decisions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in the country vulnerable to critical flaws. Cybercriminals and nation-state actors exploit numerous vulnerabilities for malicious activities, including malware campaigns and cyber espionage operations.

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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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

Scotland’s NHS, or National Health Service, is the publicly funded healthcare system serving Scotland. It provides a wide range of healthcare services, including hospitals, general practitioners (GPs), mental health services, and community healthcare. “3 terabytes of data will be published soon.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2020

Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue, dubbed BootHole, that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware. According to researchers from the firmware security firm Eclypsium, which discovered the issue, the BootHole flaw affects any operating system that uses GRUB2 with Secure Boot.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. The most worrisome figure is related to the number of previously unseen malware families which is greater than 500 (41%).

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. 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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2024

billion claim arising from the NotPetya malware incident. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a wide range of healthcare products. Merck has resolved a dispute with insurers regarding a $1.4 Merck and its insurers have agreed with a $1.4

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