As ransomware continues to impact organizations worldwide, cybersecurity leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of investing resources into improving their security programs and processes....
The Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative has unveiled its first deliverables to tackle third-party cyber risk management (TPRM) in healthcare, backed by a rapidly growing membership of...
KLAS, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and healthcare risk management solutions company Censinet released the much-anticipated first wave of results of its Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking...
Search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, Cobalt Strike abuse, and other tactics are increasingly being used against the healthcare sector, BlackBerry observed in its quarterly Global Threat...
New data from asset visibility and security company Armis found that 1 in 5 connected medical devices run on unsupported operating systems (OS). To inform its research, Armis analyzed data collected by...
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...
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...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled the upgraded Zero Trust Maturity Model Version 2 in line with President Biden's National Cybersecurity Strategy.
The new model...
A survey of more than 400 healthcare workers revealed perceived gaps in healthcare security programs, Salesforce discovered. As new technologies such as generative AI gain popularity, security experts...
The HHS 405(d) Program and the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group (HSCC CWG) led efforts to release three new and updated resources to help healthcare organizations manage...
Industry professionals across different sectors, including healthcare, view digital transformation and information security as crucial priorities, presenting both challenges and opportunities to meet...
HHS warned the healthcare sector of ongoing DNS NXDOMAIN flood distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could pose significant threats to security and system availability. HHS'...
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), along with cybersecurity software company Fortra and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), are working together to disrupt...
In just a few months since its emergence in 2022, pro-Russia hacktivist group KillNet has quickly evolved into a significant threat to the healthcare sector by executing distributed denial-of-service...
The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group has released a free eight-part video series entitled “Cybersecurity for the Clinician.” The video series provides...
Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG) has settled a class-action lawsuit for an undisclosed amount after a data breach puts the patient privacy of more than 227,943 individuals at risk. The lawsuit...
Rise Interactive Media & Analytics was hit with proposed a class action healthcare data breach lawsuit in the aftermath of a November 2022 breach.
The law firm Wolf Haldenstein, Adler...
Health-ISAC released its annual threat report, providing insight into how healthcare cybersecurity experts view the current cyber threat landscape.
More than 280 executives across Health-ISAC, CHIME,...
Effective immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require medical device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket device submissions. Additionally,...
The healthcare sector ranks lowest in several cybersecurity maturity domains, according to CYE's first Cybersecurity Maturity Report, which suggests that even organizations that handle highly...
