Healthcare Phishing Social Engineering 
The Last Watchdog
MAY 1, 2019
Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. Talk more soon.
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.” So, what exactly is social engineering?
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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.” ” reads a report published by Halcyon.
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 […].
IT Security Guru
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Other Ways Threat Actors Exploit Human Behaviour In addition to fatigue attacks, malefactors weaponise social engineering. MFA fatigue is often coupled with social engineeringan attacker might contact the victim, masquerading as IT support, and advise them to approve the prompt to “resolve an issue.”
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2021
“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. All lines of business except for: – Healthcare. – Canada. – Australia.
SecureWorld News
MAY 16, 2025
Scattered Spider is a financially motivated threat actor group known for its social engineering prowess, SIM-swapping attacks, and living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques. The group is well known to employ social engineering tactics to gain access, so hardening your help desk is an immediate first step in defense," Staynings continued.
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