Thorough and frequent employee cybersecurity training can ensure enterprise-wide security and prevent cyberattacks, while poor and infrequent training can leave an organization’s network...
With one wrong click, a healthcare phishing attack can take down entire networks, encrypt files, and put patient data in jeopardy. The smartest attackers take advantage of victims by claiming to be a...
The FBI released a flash alert warning organizations about Hive ransomware, a hacking group responsible for the recent cyberattack on Memorial Health System in mid-August that resulted in EHR downtime,...
Utah-based health system Revere Health announced it was the victim of a healthcare phishing scam on June 21 that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 12,000 patients at the Heart of Dixie...
A May 31st cyberattack on the University of Florida Health Leesburg Hospital and The Villages Regional Hospital led to EHR downtime, forcing clinicians to use pen and paper to document patient care....
Ohio-based Five Rivers Health Centers recently notified 155,748 patients that their personally identifiable and health information was breached after a two-month long email compromise last year,...
The malware threat actors behind the SolarWinds Orion compromise in 2020 are continuing to target Microsoft networks and cloud assets, according to Microsoft insights. NOBELIUM historically targets...
Reports consistently highlight the risk of vulnerability exploits and ransomware to healthcare. But email is often the key access point in these attacks, through phishing and stolen credentials. As insiders remain a leading threat,...
Scripps Health in San Diego was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, forcing the health system into EHR downtime. Some critical care patients were diverted and the online patient portal...
Threat actors are continuing to target the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, the means of delivering and storing vaccines at safe temperatures, with spear-phishing campaigns that leverage pharma and...
Multiple fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine, pharmacy, and other pandemic-related websites have been taken down, as a result of a federal government enforcement effort to combat fraud schemes and attacks...
Senior medical research personnel in the US and Israel are being targeted by a credential phishing campaign launched by a nation-state hacking group with ties to Iran, according to a new Proofpoint...
The number of phishing attacks targeting pharmacies and hospitals increased by 189 percent from December 2020 to February. These often large-scale campaigns correlated to hackers attempting to...
The FBI recently warned private sector entities that cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging business email compromise attacks against federal government agencies, which has hindered...
The latest FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime cost individuals and US businesses about $4.2 billion in losses in 2020, up 69 percent from $3.5 billion in 2019. Phishing, non-payment...
Healthcare business associate Peak TPA is notifying 50,000 PACE program patients that their data was stolen from two of its cloud servers by an attacker. The third-party administrator supports claims...
A joint federal alert warns that all entities should be on the alert for a newly observed spear-phishing campaign, leveraging malicious emails to deliver the TrickBot malware payload....
Woodcreek Provider Services and Elara Caring recently reported healthcare data breaches impacting more than 300,000 patients. The tallies are some of the largest reported in the healthcare sector...
The vaccine rollout has spurred an increase in nefarious activities tied to the response. Imperva found a whopping 372 percent surge in bad bot traffic against healthcare sites, while...
The number of phishing campaigns delivering malware has drastically decreased in recent years, with just 12 percent of phishing deploying malware. On the other hand, 57 percent of all phishing...
