The internet has a bot problem, cybersecurity company Imperva suggested in its 2023 Bad Bot Report. Nearly half of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022, while human traffic dipped to its lowest...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest alert details the growing trend of threat actors targeting a known vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR)...
The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) reported a breach to HHS that impacted 49,000 individuals. The breach occurred when DOH discovered that a spreadsheet containing information about individual...
When one healthcare organization suffers a cyberattack, other facilities in the area feel its impact, a study published in JAMA Network Open suggested. Emergency medicine physician and self-taught...
Kansas-based McPherson Hospital recently notified 19,020 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the May 4 notice, McPherson Hospital fell victim to a ransomware attack on July 12, 2022,...
SuperCare Health has agreed to a data breach settlement totaling $2.25 million in a class-action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Vickey Angulo and class members, who alleged the organization’s...
Rising password breaches accelerate the adoption of password-less authentication methods such as biometrics, passkeys, and security keys as 41 percent of IT decision-makers accredited these practices...
Tennessee-based Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC) is actively recovering a “sophisticated criminal cyberattack” that it suffered on April 22, its website states.
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An Iowa woman filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) over its use of tracking pixels. As previously reported, companies like Google and Meta, along with...
90 Degree Benefits, a health insurance company, is in hot water as a proposed class-action lawsuit emerges, following a data breach that jeopardized the privacy of more than 181,543 individuals.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted healthcare providers and laboratory personnel of a cybersecurity vulnerability that impacts the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in select...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a sector alert about the current operations of Clop and LockBit ransomware groups. The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups have...
Healthcare data breaches continue to impact large and small organizations across the country, as exemplified by the most recent batch of data breach notifications outlined below.
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California-based Santa Clara Health Plan (SCHP) reported a breach tied to a known vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) solution that impacted 276,993 individuals. As...
As ransomware continues to impact organizations worldwide, cybersecurity leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of investing resources into improving their security programs and processes....
The Health 3rd Party Trust (Health3PT) Initiative has unveiled its first deliverables to tackle third-party cyber risk management (TPRM) in healthcare, backed by a rapidly growing membership of...
KLAS, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and healthcare risk management solutions company Censinet released the much-anticipated first wave of results of its Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking...
Search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, Cobalt Strike abuse, and other tactics are increasingly being used against the healthcare sector, BlackBerry observed in its quarterly Global Threat...
New data from asset visibility and security company Armis found that 1 in 5 connected medical devices run on unsupported operating systems (OS). To inform its research, Armis analyzed data collected by...
San Francisco-based John Muir Health (JMH) notified 821 patients of a security incident that occurred when an Excel file containing patient information was accidentally exposed to the internet. JMH...
