Unlike other threat actors that shy away from deploying ransomware on critical infrastructure, education, and healthcare, FIN12 ransomware group specializes in targeted attacks on the healthcare sector.
Nearly 20 percent of threat...
The cybersecurity workforce gap narrowed for the second consecutive year, but the global workforce still must grow by 65 percent in order to effectively defend critical assets and data, according to...
President Biden met with world leaders from over 30 nations and pledged to tackle ransomware threats and promote cyber resilience together, according to a White House press release. The countries...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Deborah Ross (D-NC) introduced the Ransom Disclosure Act, which aims to require ransomware victims to report ransom payment information to the...
Cyber resiliency is the armor that healthcare organizations need to defend against cybercriminals. Equipped with the tools to prevent, prepare, and respond, organizations can significantly reduce the...
Thorough and frequent employee cybersecurity training can ensure enterprise-wide security and prevent cyberattacks, while poor and infrequent training can leave an organization’s network...
HealthReach Community Health Centers in Waterville, Maine, began notifying over 100,000 patients of a health data breach that resulted from improper disposal of hard drives. The hard drives were...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are requesting public comment on newly proposed strategies and guidance that support the...
The University of Minnesota announced the new Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity (CMCDC), spearheaded by funding from leading medical device manufacturers including Smiths Medical, Optum, Boston...
Employee email misuse led to patient protected health information (PHI) being compromised in two recent healthcare data breaches, one in California and the other in Florida.
As ransomware attacks...
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have seen an uptick in ransomware attacks on holidays and weekends this summer and urged organizations to stay vigilant in a new...
Healthcare organizations maintain valuable protected health information (PHI) that make them prime targets for ransomware attacks, but hospital cybersecurity ratings historically lag behind most other...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a fact sheet outlining steps organizations can take to prevent ransomware attacks, protect personally identifiable information...
Hackers are changing their tactics when it comes to healthcare data breaches in 2021. As hospitals struggled to combat COVID-19 in 2020, cyber criminals added to the chaos by infiltrating networks,...
Critical vulnerabilities are impacting the pneumatic tube systems of over 3,000 hospitals in North America, according to a new report.
The US Cybersecurity and...
Basic health IT security and cybersecurity remain a struggle for many healthcare systems in the United States, according to a new report.
The “Maturity Paradox: New...
Healthcare is a prime target of ransomware and needs assistance to face digital thieves, according to several witnesses that testified before Congress this...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an Emergency Directive on PrintNightmare July 13th, raising concerns for health IT security...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its official definition of “critical software,” as instructed by President Biden’s executive order (EO) on...
