The latest FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime cost individuals and US businesses about $4.2 billion in losses in 2020, up 69 percent from $3.5 billion in 2019. Phishing, non-payment...
Healthcare business associate Peak TPA is notifying 50,000 PACE program patients that their data was stolen from two of its cloud servers by an attacker. The third-party administrator supports claims...
A joint federal alert warns that all entities should be on the alert for a newly observed spear-phishing campaign, leveraging malicious emails to deliver the TrickBot malware payload....
The most frequent exploit in the last three months caught by HP Sure Click was against an older, unpatched memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, accounting for nearly 75 percent of all...
Microsoft unveiled a mitigation tool for small entities and others operating without a designated IT or security team, which is designed to automatically mitigate the recently...
At least 10 advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking groups are targeting unpatched, on-prem Microsoft Exchange servers, in an effort to exploit the vulnerability and take control of the impacted...
Trillium Community Health Plan and the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine recently reported some of their patient data was involved in the exploit of Accellion’s File Transfer...
A report from Bloomberg shows hackers were able to gain access to the live feeds from at least 150,000 security cameras, including those belonging to several hospitals, health clinics, Tesla, and...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released new guidance to help support security leaders and administrators with risk decisions and remediation of...
Woodcreek Provider Services and Elara Caring recently reported healthcare data breaches impacting more than 300,000 patients. The tallies are some of the largest reported in the healthcare sector...
The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is urging healthcare entities to path the four critical vulnerabilities found in certain Microsoft Exchange Servers, under active exploit....
The FBI is currently investigating at least two separate ransomware incidents: one attack on Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care in New Mexico and another on Allergy Partners care sites in North...
The vaccine rollout has spurred an increase in nefarious activities tied to the response. Imperva found a whopping 372 percent surge in bad bot traffic against healthcare sites, while...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted to an out-of-band software update issued by Microsoft, which will patch four zero-day vulnerabilities found...
The number of phishing campaigns delivering malware has drastically decreased in recent years, with just 12 percent of phishing deploying malware. On the other hand, 57 percent of all phishing...
The notorious Ryuk ransomware variant has been spotted in the wild by CERT-FR, the French government’s cybersecurity agency, updated with worming capabilities that allow it to automatically...
The NSA unveiled guidance for implementing a zero trust security model across the enterprise infrastructure, which includes recommendations. The system management strategy is designed to bolster...
It’s been long established that the healthcare threat landscape, in terms of its prime targeted nature and the vast number of connected supply chain vendors and medical devices, poses an equal amount of risk and network security...
Georgia-based Gore Medical Management, doing business as Family Medical Center, recently notified 79,100 patients that the FBI discovered some of their data on a third-party computer.
The FBI alerted...
Cyberattacks on healthcare more than doubled in 2020, with ransomware accounting for 28 percent of all attacks. COVID-19 response efforts, including personal protective equipment and the vaccine supply...
