Hackers are utilizing the popularity of the videoconferencing platform Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting the platform with cyberattacks to install malware, according to recent Check...
Europol released a report showing how hackers are profiting off of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning hackers are shifting attacks to remote workers and the healthcare sector. Meanwhile, researchers...
Microsoft is warning organizations that hackers are actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities found in its Windows Adobe Type Manager Library on all supported platforms running server and...
Bitdefender Labs have detected five times more Coronavirus-themed malware reports during March. And the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice have each begun...
The Office for Civil Rights issued an alert for healthcare providers urging them to review recent COVID-19 cyber scam guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, as hackers continue to target...
Given the increase in remote work due to the Coronavirus disease, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging organizations to adopt heightened best...
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, released his spin on federal privacy legislation on March 12 that would establish a national privacy standard and preempt state privacy laws, after bipartisan talks came to...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Agency is urging organizations to review a Microsoft security advisory regarding a critical SMB remote code vulnerability, after the tech giant...
A critical vulnerability found in Microsoft exchange servers is actively being exploited by multiple APT hacking groups. A successful hack of an unpatched system would give an attacker remote access,...
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council released best practice guidance around cyber threat information sharing programs to help healthcare organizations develop and manage these...
The overwhelming majority of hospitals and health systems experienced an email-based cyberattack in the last year, with 72 percent experiencing downtime due to the security incident, according to a...
A new phishing campaign has been spotted in the wild by Proofpoint researchers, where hackers send insurance, healthcare, and pharma companies false HIV test results in malicious emails in hopes of...
Ransomware attacks against healthcare providers increased a whopping 350 percent during the last quarter of 2019 with the rapid pace of attacks already continuing throughout 2020, according to a new...
The Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team released insights around human-operated ransomware attacks, a preventable threat where hackers target known vulnerabilities and weaknesses to deploy...
Eighty-seven percent of healthcare IT security leaders say they don’t have the personnel needed to achieve a more effective security posture, as more than half of healthcare organizations...
NIST released a report outlining the results from a five-year pilot program for regional alliances and stakeholder partnerships, which also provides organizations with a roadmap for building their own...
IT security practitioners routinely engage in risky password and authentication practices. And there’s a misalignment between expectations and reality when it comes to the implementation of...
More than 41.4 million patient records were breached by 572 healthcare data breaches in 2019, as hacking surged. And it’s likely those estimates are vastly underestimated given two significant...
Hackensack Meridian Health, one of the largest health systems in New Jersey, is facing a class-action lawsuit, following a ransomware attack that drove the provider offline for several days in...
More than 1,500 healthcare organizations have been hit with successful ransomware attacks since 2016, costing the sector over $160 million during that time, according to a recent report from...
