Mandiant observed threat actors favoring the financial, professional services, high tech and healthcare industries in 2022, according to its newly released M-Trends 2023 report. The report aimed to...
Massachusetts-based Point32Health, the parent of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, posted a notice on its website regarding a “cybersecurity ransomware incident” that it...
The average cost of a healthcare ransomware attack was $4.82 million in 2021, according to IBM Security’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report.” In a new report by ThreatConnect, the cyber...
Third-party risk management (TPRM) remains a significant challenge for healthcare organizations of all sizes, as exemplified by the high volume of third-party data breaches reported to HHS in 2022.
As healthcare organizations continue to...
A survey of more than 400 healthcare workers revealed perceived gaps in healthcare security programs, Salesforce discovered. As new technologies such as generative AI gain popularity, security experts...
The HHS 405(d) Program and the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group (HSCC CWG) led efforts to release three new and updated resources to help healthcare organizations manage...
Alcohol recovery startup Monument disclosed a healthcare data breach to HHS that impacted 108,584 individuals. According to a report from The Verge, Monument, which acquired fellow online alcohol...
Industry professionals across different sectors, including healthcare, view digital transformation and information security as crucial priorities, presenting both challenges and opportunities to meet...
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced that approximately 20,000 Medicaid members may have had their personal information compromised as a result of a third-party data breach.
Iowa...
Cybersecurity remains a key challenge for the healthcare sector, an industry inundated with ransomware, phishing attacks, third-party risk management struggles, and security staffing shortages. These obstacles are consistent across the...
EHRs are poised to remain a crucial part of the healthcare industry, but the exploitation of patient data casts a shadow over its benefits. A recent HHS threat brief emphasized the need for healthcare...
HHS warned the healthcare sector of ongoing DNS NXDOMAIN flood distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could pose significant threats to security and system availability. HHS'...
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), along with cybersecurity software company Fortra and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), are working together to disrupt...
In just a few months since its emergence in 2022, pro-Russia hacktivist group KillNet has quickly evolved into a significant threat to the healthcare sector by executing distributed denial-of-service...
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) provided a healthcare data breach notice to HHS following a February breach. The incident impacted 20,376 individuals in total.
As previously reported, TMH began...
The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group has released a free eight-part video series entitled “Cybersecurity for the Clinician.” The video series provides...
Health-ISAC released its annual threat report, providing insight into how healthcare cybersecurity experts view the current cyber threat landscape.
More than 280 executives across Health-ISAC, CHIME,...
Effective immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require medical device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket device submissions. Additionally,...
Blue Shield of California notified 63,341 individuals of a healthcare data breach that stemmed from the Fortra GoAnywhere vulnerability. One of Blue Shield’s providers, Brightline Medical...
The healthcare sector ranks lowest in several cybersecurity maturity domains, according to CYE's first Cybersecurity Maturity Report, which suggests that even organizations that handle highly...
