The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cybersecurity vulnerability mitigation guide for the healthcare sector, stressing the importance of remediating known...
HC3 issued an analyst note regarding BlackSuit ransomware, a relatively new group that appears to be similar to the Royal ransomware family and its notorious predecessor, Conti ransomware. HC3 warned...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a set of sweeping cybersecurity regulations that would apply to hospitals across the state, along with $500 million in funding to help healthcare facilities...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a $450,000 settlement with US Radiology Specialists over alleged health data security failures that resulted in a ransomware attack. The Attorney...
US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) launched a bipartisan Senate healthcare cybersecurity working group. The group will focus on proposing...
HITRUST issued a response to the White House’s request for information (RFI) on the harmonization of cybersecurity regulations, suggesting that regulation alone is not a fix to the ongoing cyber...
The International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) held its third summit in Washington, DC, with representatives from 50 countries joining together to build upon counter-ransomware projects and...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) urged the sector to prioritize monitoring and upgrading SolarWinds systems following a series of cybersecurity vulnerability...
HHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) teamed up to release a healthcare cybersecurity toolkit consisting of key resources for managing and mitigating cyber risk in the...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest white paper examined the risks of “quishing,” or QR code-based phishing attacks. The growing popularity of quick...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a $350,000 settlement with Personal Touch Holding Corporation, a Long Island-based home healthcare company, to resolve allegations stemming from a data...
Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) had to temporarily divert ambulances and shut down IT systems in response to a cyberattack, AP News first reported. According to the health...
A cybersecurity vulnerability in ServiceNow, a cloud computing platform, may allow unauthenticated users to extract data from records, a cybersecurity researcher discovered in mid-October. The Health...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a public service announcement to alert the public about cybercriminals who have been targeting plastic surgery offices, surgeons, and their patients...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an analyst note regarding NoEscape ransomware, a new threat to healthcare and other industries. Although just two healthcare victims...
Security budgets across all sectors experienced a 6 percent average security budget increase this year, compared to a 17 percent increase in the last budget cycle, a new report from IANS Research and...
Advanced email attacks remain a top threat to organizations around the world, including those in the healthcare sector, Abnormal Security observed in its latest blog post. Abnormal saw a 167 percent...
The US healthcare sector has long faced cyber threats from all directions, from insider threats to foreign state-sponsored adversaries. In its latest threat brief, the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued recommendations to Congress about how the federal government could improve critical infrastructure cyber incident reporting in a new report. Notable...