The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) issued a new publication, entitled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Coordinated Healthcare...
Kronos, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), agreed to pay $6 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a 2021 data breach. The HR management solutions provider suffered a ransomware attack...
Approximately 559,000 individuals were impacted by a healthcare data breach at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC), the Tennessee-based organization confirmed.
As previously reported,...
Strong authentication practices can help healthcare organizations mitigate breach risk and maintain compliance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reminded covered entities in its June 2023...
Medtronic notified the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of a cybersecurity vulnerability (CVE-2023-31222) found in its Paceart Optima System. If exploited, threat actors may be...
Catalyzed by ongoing technological innovation and the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare sector has steadily increased its digital transformation efforts in recent years. Cloud adoption, telehealth, and...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest analyst note details the threat of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, which is increasingly being used against the...
San Jose, California-based Good Samaritan Hospital has reached an undisclosed settlement, which includes a nearly $460,000 commitment to cybersecurity upgrades, to resolve a class-action lawsuit...
Healthcare data breaches are continuing to impact the healthcare sector at alarming rates, even as healthcare organizations continue to adopt the latest security solutions to keep pace with the influx of new cyber threats.
The healthcare...
Digital health company Kannact disclosed a breach to HHS that impacted 103,547 individuals. According to a breach notice posted on the company’s website, Kannact discovered that an unauthorized...
With cyberattacks on the rise, trust in teams and technology is crucial. However, 42 percent of security leaders see a trust deficit as their biggest hurdle, a new survey showed.
The 2023 'State...
Cyber resilience is crucial to business continuity amid a cyber incident, as it ensures that systems can recover quickly. As such, it is no surprise that cyber resilience would be top-of-mind for...
HHS called attention to a resurfaced ransomware variant called TimisoaraHackerTeam (THT), which recently claimed responsibility for a June 2023 cyberattack on a United States cancer center. The...
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Russian national for his involvement in LockBit ransomware attacks. As previously reported, LockBit is one of the most prolific ransomware groups...
Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health are actively investigating a cyberattack and data breach that occurred on May 31. Johns Hopkins said that the attack involved a “widely used...
Amidst a surge of cybersecurity threats, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has spotlighted a new one, FIN11, a cybercriminal collective originating from the Commonwealth of...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), along with international...
St. Margaret’s Health will close the doors of its Spring Valley and Peru, Illinois locations on Friday, June 16, in part due to a cyberattack that it suffered in 2021. A ransomware attack on St....
Tennessee-based revenue cycle management vendor Intellihartx (ITx) disclosed a data breach to the Maine Attorney General’s Office that impacted 489,830 individuals. The breach stemmed from a...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an educational brief regarding the types of cyber threat actors that target healthcare. Learning the motivations and tactics of these...