The FBI is urging private sector organizations to be on alert for Ragnar Locker ransomware attacks, which frequently lead to data theft, following a rapid increase in cyberattacks.
First observed in...
The University of Vermont Health Network restored access to its Epic EHR, following a month of downtime procedures brought on by a massive ransomware attack across its care network.
A November 24...
The Department of Health and Human Services published two final rules on Friday designed to reduce regulatory barriers and improve care coordination, which both contain safe harbor provisions that will...
Another class-action lawsuit has been filed against Blackbaud following a ransomware attack that breached the data of more than 10 million individuals from well over 100 companies. In recent weeks, the...
Two new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild using legitimate Google services and social engineering in an effort to appear as legitimate emails and are capable of bypassing security...
Dakota State University (DSU) and Sanford Health announced the launch of a new initiative, which will create a CyberHealth innovation hub designed to combine the strengths of each organization to...
The University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio has agreed to a $65,000 settlement and a corrective action penalty with the Office for Civil Rights to resolve a potential violation of the...
Luxottica of America recently reported a patient data breach, which impacted 829,454 patients. But prior to the security incident, the company faced a ransomware attack, and the Nefilim ransomware...
In the Fall of 2019, a damning report from ProPublica outlined a massive healthcare exposure: millions of medical images generated from Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) were left...
Nearly half of all advanced phishing attempts, such as spear-phishing and social engineering attacks, bypass leading secure email gateways (SEGs), as hackers shift into more advanced schemes that...
Two global firms with reported ties to the COVID-19 pandemic response faced cyberattacks within the last week. Miltenyi Biotec reported a system outage caused by a malware attack, while cold storage...
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, provided an update on the joint federal alert regarding the imminent wave of ransomware...
Hackers are teaming up with other cybercriminals to increase the impact of attacks and to take advantage of troves of stolen data. Trend Micro and Intel 471 found ransomware groups are teaming up...
The number of cyberattacks leveraging encrypted channels to bypass legacy security controls has rapidly increased by a staggering 260 percent since 2019, with the healthcare sector as the leading...
Area 1 Security detected a widespread spear-phishing campaign tied to the notorious TrickBot threat actors, which is targeting victims with fake termination emails in an effort to deploy...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency released an alert urging organizations to apply mitigations provided by BD to close a vulnerability found in its Alaris...
COVID-19 vaccine developers and research firms are again facing targeted cyberattacks, with an ongoing campaign led by nation-state hackers with ties to North Korea and Russia, according to...
The Office for Civil Rights announced it reached a settlement with Rajendra Bhayani, MD, a private practice otolaryngology specialist based in Regal Park, New York for $15,000 and a corrective action...
Medical device vendor Zoll filed a lawsuit with the US District Court of Massachusetts against IT service vendor Barracuda Networks, after an error during a server...
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...
