Although security professionals may take holidays and weekends off, threat actors do not. New research from Cybereason found that holiday and weekend ransomware attacks resulted in greater revenue...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and MITRE released an updated version of their “Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook.” The playbook...
Five former employees of Tennessee-based Methodist Hospital have been indicted by a federal grand jury for committing HIPAA violations, the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of...
Numerous cloud attacks are successfully exploiting the healthcare sector for financial gain, according to a newly released 2022 Cloud Security Report by cybersecurity vendor Netwrix.
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Dual Russian and Canadian national Mikhail Vasiliev was charged for his alleged involvement in the global LockBit ransomware campaign, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. LockBit has been known...
California-based Legacy Post Acute Care notified patients of a data breach that occurred between January 19 and March 3 2022. In September, Legacy Post Acute Care first discovered that an unauthorized...
New cybersecurity vulnerabilities are a constant challenge for organizations of all sizes, Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
CommonSpirit Health informed patients that the majority of impacted hospitals and clinics across the health system once again have access to their EHR systems following an October ransomware attack...
In a new analyst note, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned the healthcare sector to remain vigilant against Venus ransomware. The variant, also known as GOODGAME, has been...
Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Hospital settled a data breach lawsuit outside of court relating to a security incident that began in 2018. The hospital agreed to implement additional security...
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections reported a third-party data breach that impacted 85,466 inmates who received offsite medical care during their incarceration between January...
Healthcare risk management solutions company Censinet, along with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and KLAS Research, announced plans to conduct “The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking...
Aveanna Healthcare reached a proprosed settlement to resolve a healthcare data breach lawsuit stemming from a 2019 string of phishing attacks that impacted hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a detailed brief exploring the Iranian threat landscape and its implications for the US healthcare sector.
Iranian threat actors...
As previously reported, OakBend Medical Center suffered a ransomware attack resulting in a healthcare data breach on September 1. OakBend spent the following weeks rebuilding its communication...
Texas-based St. Luke’s Health notified 16,906 individuals of a third-party data breach that impacted Adelanto Healthcare Ventures (AHCV), a consulting services vendor. The breach is unrelated to...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), released a joint...
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released a policy options paper entitled “Cybersecurity is Patient Safety,” to address key healthcare...
WakeMed Health and Hospitals is the subject of a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that allegedly led to patient data being transmitted to Facebook (Meta) through the use of...
Oklahoma-based Massengale Eye Care was the latest eye care practice to report impacts from the Eye Care Leaders (ECL) data breach. As previously reported, Eye Care Leaders, which offers an...
