A recent McAfee report confirms that cybercriminals have been steadily working to exploit the increase in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, with researchers finding that remote attacks on cloud...
Cybercriminals are once again working to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic through two new phishing campaigns: Hack-for-hire groups are spoofing the World Health Organization (WHO), while other...
Forty-four percent of state health departments and state governments do not have a published Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), making these entities much more...
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency are being asked how they’re defending against attempts to hack COVID-19-related research data, following...
The NetWalker ransomware threat actors – a serious threat to the healthcare sector – has ramped up its business model, transitioning into a Ransomware-as-a-Service (Raas) model in an...
In the latest COVID-19-related fraud scheme, threat actors are looking to exploit the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic impact payments to steal personal and financial...
Contact tracing app initiatives have emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a modern enhancement to traditional methods for tracking the spread of the virus, finding new infections, and...
Proofpoint researchers have detected a steep rise in spoofing attempts that leverage phishing attacks with COVID-19 themes and fake websites that mimic government agencies and non-governmental...
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) jointly released guidance for healthcare entities, on ways to manage...
A group of Congressional Democrats proposed privacy legislation designed ensure the privacy and security of proposed COVID-19 contact tracing apps. Senate Republicans released a competing privacy bill...
Research facilities working on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic are being targeted by hackers tied to the People’s Republic of China, according to a joint alert from the FBI and the...
Zoom settled with New York Attorney General Letitia James on May 7, following a state-led investigation into the videoconferencing platform. James launched an investigation after a number of privacy...
The nationwide public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several Good Faith HIPAA waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The waivers aim to fuel data sharing...
Successful ransomware attacks on the US healthcare sector are in decline with just 25 providers impacted during the first quarter of 2020, compared to a total of 764 events, or an average of 191 per...
The Office for Civil Rights issued a list of COVID-19-related cyber threat resources for covered healthcare providers to help the sector best prevent, detect, respond, and recover from privacy and...
The notorious Maze ransomware hacking group has failed to follow through with their assurance the healthcare sector would be off-limits during the COVID-19 pandemic, by publishing data stolen from two...
The Office for Civil Rights issued a reminder to healthcare providers that even amid the COVID-19 crisis, the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not permit them to give site access to media and other film...
Healthcare organizations and other essential services are again being warned that advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking groups are continuing to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic; this time to actively...
The number of brute-force attacks on remote desktop protocol (RDP) servers has drastically increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as a record number of employees are now working from home, according to...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released COVID-19 telework guidance for Microsoft Office 365 and other cloud services, given many organizations have...
