Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. In a 2022 report they state that they have “received multiple reports of cyber criminals increasingly targeting healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments.” How does it affect healthcare? In one case, $3.1 In one case, $3.1

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Healthcare Cyberattacks Common – And Costly. The financial costs of healthcare cyberattacks are high, the report noted, costing an average of $4.4

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector have surged because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting rush to enable remote delivery of healthcare services. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector have surged because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting rush to enable remote delivery of healthcare services. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) security team (the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center or HC3) released a report detailing how Royal ransomware has been used to target the healthcare sector. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 1, 2023

Mobile phishing is an issue plaguing the masses and a growing concern for enterprises, particularly as 2022 had the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, according to Lookout ‘s Global State of Mobile Phishing report. have been exposed to at least one malicious phishing attack every quarter.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A recent phishing attack that was intercepting Zoom users to get their Microsoft exchange credentials was unraveled. This email attack aimed at over 21,000 users targeting the National Healthcare Company and managed to bypass Microsoft Exchange Email Security (a mail and calendaring server used by millions of businesses around the world).

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

A senior government official from UAE has alleged that the chat-based platform is being used by criminals to launch phishing and ransomware attacks. They are also using the platform to write phishing emails and launching them with a 63% suc-cess rate. If it is used for a good cause, then it can yield relative results and vice versa.

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Digital Guardian

AUGUST 17, 2022

The latest phishing campaign targeting the industry involves a convincing looking Evernote landing page.

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Healthcare company Norton says a May breach led to the theft of data of around 2.5 Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished. million of its patients, as well as employees and their dependents. Watch out for fake vendors.

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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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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 Boulevard

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. The post Social Engineering and Healthcare appeared first on Security Boulevard. So much so that the Federal […].

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2022

May 2021 was a tough month for the Healthcare and Medical sector–the most notable threat trend at the time was the heavy use of a new popular exploit against Dell systems, leading to immense effort by attackers to utilize the exploit before it became less effective due to patching. Securing healthcare and medical organizations.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Phishing remains one of the top cyber threats faced by organizations, and as phishing scams become more sophisticated, security leaders need clearer insights into phishing risks across their industry and geography to prioritize defenses. million users across more than 35,000 global organizations that use KnowBe4's platform.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Comparitech released the results of its most recent study , looking at the true cost of ransomware on healthcare organisations around the world. Place this scenario in a healthcare environment, and the stakes are much higher. In 2022, ransomware attacks on healthcare organisations remain a very prominent threat.

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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. Perhaps the attackers got lucky off the back of a mass-mail phish attempt.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 21, 2022

To obtain Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook credentials, a new phishing operation has been targeting U.S. firms in the military, security software, manufacturing supply chain, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. The newly-uncovered operation, according […].

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Dark Reading

MARCH 4, 2021

Interest in vaccines is driving all sorts of activity, reports say, from vaccine-specific phishing to growing bot traffic on healthcare sites.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Securing the healthcare data warehouses themselves is equally vital to ensure the software applications’ security in their development and maintenance. Use strong access controls: Setting up strict access restrictions is one of the critical elements in securing healthcare data warehouses.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2022

In this new instance of the campaign, the threat actor has targeted users in US-based organizations in specific verticals including software security, US military, security solution providers, healthcare / pharmaceutical, and the manufacturing supply chain. Figure 7: Captcha displayed by the phishing page. Key points. URL analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. 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.

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Dark Reading

JULY 12, 2022

New data from security training provider shows half of untrained users in consulting, energy, and healthcare industries fall for phishing attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As a result of a cloud breach, one in four healthcare organization was fined for non-compliance and 1 in 10 was sued, Netwrix study finds. . February 24, 2021 – Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy , today announced findings for the healthcare sector from its global 2021 Netwrix Cloud Data Security Report. .

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2023

Stolen email addresses and phone numbers can lead to an increase in phishing attempts, while Social Security numbers could be used by cybercriminals to conduct instances of identity theft.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

It is no secret that healthcare systems around the globe are facing unprecedented challenges. Beyond the obvious spectre of the pandemic, health services need to provide a growing, increasingly elderly, population, with quality healthcare despite rising costs. How healthcare has transformed during the pandemic.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 10, 2022

As your use of medical software increases, so does the value of your healthcare data. Your Keys to Better Healthcare Information Security Read More ». The post Your Keys to Better Healthcare Information Security appeared first on TechSpective. Protecting patient health information (PHI) is now more critical than ever.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The post Healthcare Breaches Expose Sensitive Information; Twitter Users’ Data Leaked Online appeared first on BlackCloak | Protect Your Digital Life™. The post Healthcare Breaches Expose Sensitive Information; Twitter Users’ Data Leaked Online appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. PayPal phishing sites are a dime a dozen due to the number of people and companies using it as another form of payment method. This was evident after Akamai found an attacker had planted a phishing kit on its WordPress honeypot.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 30, 2021

A new report finds IT, healthcare, and manufacturing are the industries most targeted by phishing emails.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

The company has more than 19,000 employees and contracts with at least 750 healthcare organizations nationwide. Defray was first spotted in 2017, and its purveyors have a history of specifically targeting companies in the healthcare space. “The phishing emails the authors use are well-crafted,” Trend Micro wrote.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bad ops of operators of a phishing campaign exposed credentials stolen in attacks and made them publicly available through Google queries. . Check Point Research along with experts from cybersecurity firm Otorio shared details on their investigation into a large-scale phishing campaign that targeted thousands of global organizations.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Recent reports have indicated that there is an active phishing campaign faking a message from the UK' s National Health Service (NHS) telling people they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 related phishing emails. Reaction to phishing scams. This has resulted in many of those targeted falling for the scam.

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