Texas-based Hendrick Health is operating under EHR downtime procedures after discovering a network ‘security threat’ at the main campus's medical center and some...
Threat actors have made it clear: healthcare will remain a prime target for ransomware attacks, extortion demands, phishing, and whatever nefarious scheme they can use to ensure a...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with the city of New Haven, Connecticut, including a $202,400 civil monetary penalty and a corrective action plan, following a...
It’s no secret healthcare has remained highly targeted by cybercriminals given its troves of valuable data and the high likelihood of paying ransom demands. As COVID-19 surged, hackers rapidly evolved their threats and tactics to...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently released a pair of insights. The first outlines best practice guidance for ransomware and other threats,...
The frequency of daily ransomware attacks increased 50 percent during the third quarter of 2020 from the first half of the year, with the US healthcare sector the most targeted globally, according to...
Hackers have leveraged the COVID-19 public health crisis to improve the sophistication and increase the frequency of attacks. Specifically, email phishing that targets enterprise...
From October 2019 to July 2020, Microsoft data shows hackers have rapidly improved the sophistication and increased the frequency of cyberattacks. And when it comes to incident response...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a settlement with the Athens Orthopedic Clinic for $1.5 million over a 2016 data breach caused by the notorious hacking group...
A recently discovered phishing campaign is relying on message quarantine emails for employee credential theft, through an overlay tactic that uses the homepage of the targeted...
Digital Shadows recently reported that at least 15 billion compromised credentials and passwords are for sale on the dark web. The data should serve as a warning to...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released guidance to help enterprise organizations detect and remediate malicious cyber activity, which...
A new phishing campaign has been spotted in the wild using hidden text, or what’s known as zero font, to bypass email security controls and deliver malicious emails to the user,...
A report from Area 1 Security warns all sectors that a prominent phishing campaign is preying on COVID-19 fears, sending targeted emails offering personal protective equipment (PPE)...
The Office of Civil Rights recently shared ways an IT asset inventory can create a more effective risk analysis to close information security gaps and support HIPAA compliance. Given the...
Entities should be on the alert for an increase in two business email compromise campaigns. One report found an increase in BEC phishing campaigns targeting the Microsoft Office 365 accounts...
Massachusetts-based Moderna, a research firm currently tasked with the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, was targeted by hackers with ties to the government of China, in an effort designed to...
Maryland Health Services, DBA Lorien Health Services, recently reported that a June ransomware attack on its systems potentially breached the data of 47,754 patients. Lorien...
Recent insights from the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shed light on recent cyberattacks that leverage network tunneling and spoofing...
There are currently 15 billion compromised credentials and passwords for sale on hacker forums, stolen from more than 100,000 separate data breaches in the last two years, according to a new...
