The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA)...
The United States government offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian hacker accused of multiple ransomware attacks on US critical...
When one healthcare organization suffers a cyberattack, other facilities in the area feel its impact, a study published in JAMA Network Open suggested. Emergency medicine physician and self-taught...
Kansas-based McPherson Hospital recently notified 19,020 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the May 4 notice, McPherson Hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack on July 12, 2022,...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a sector alert about the current operations of Clop and LockBit ransomware groups. The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups have...
Healthcare data breaches continue to impact large and small organizations across the country, as exemplified by the most recent batch of data breach notifications outlined below.
Graceworks Lutheran...
As ransomware continues to impact organizations worldwide, cybersecurity leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of investing resources into improving their security programs and processes....
Mandiant observed threat actors favoring the financial, professional services, high tech and healthcare industries in 2022, according to its newly released M-Trends 2023 report. The report aimed to...
Massachusetts-based Point32Health, the parent of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, posted a notice on its website regarding a “cybersecurity ransomware incident” that it...
The average cost of a healthcare ransomware attack was $4.82 million in 2021, according to IBM Security’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report.” In a new report by ThreatConnect, the cyber...
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is the latest healthcare organization to report a data breach stemming from its use of tracking and analytics tools. As previously reported, Meta, Google, and other...
Atlantic General Hospital has notified 30,704 patients of a ransomware attack that potentially compromised protected health information (PHI), a notice provided to the Maine Attorney General’s...
The healthcare sector struggles to keep pace in a rapidly changing healthcare cybersecurity landscape, as some CISOs neglect to leverage dark web intelligence, resulting in a weaker cyber posture...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) issued a joint...
The healthcare sector faces a new cybersecurity threat as the Black Basta ransomware group emerges, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned in a threat profile. The ransomware...
Blackbaud agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges relating to a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced. Blackbaud...
Healthcare providers face a heightened risk of data exfiltration, according to a recent HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) brief that delves into the various threat actors and...
Royal ransomware is continuing to be used in aggressive cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. As previously reported, the group poses a significant threat to the healthcare sector.
To help...
Even as healthcare organizations continue to increase investments aimed at preventing and mitigating ransomware attacks, health IT leaders reported a lack of confidence about their organizations’...
MedusaLocker ransomware is the latest variant used to encrypt healthcare systems, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned in its latest analyst note.
The note follows a July...