Ransomware

Clop Ransomware Continues to Threaten Healthcare Sector, HC3 Warns

by Jill McKeon

Clop ransomware continues to pose a threat to healthcare and other sectors, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) warned in its most recent alert about the Russia-linked ransomware...

Lehigh Valley Health Network Hit By BlackCat Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) President and CEO Brian A. Nester, DO, MBA, announced that LVHN was the target of a BlackCat ransomware attack in early February. BlackCat is a sophisticated...

CommonSpirit Health Ransomware Attack Leads to $150M in Losses To Date

by Jill McKeon

CommonSpirit Health has incurred $150 million in losses as a result of an October 2022 ransomware attack, the health system’s unaudited quarterly report stated. “The Cybersecurity...

Maryland Hospital Suffers Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

Atlantic General Hospital in Maryland is recovering from a ransomware attack that was discovered early this week, local news outlet WMDT47 first reported. The hospital experienced network outages and...

IL Social Services Organization Notifies 184K of Healthcare Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) notified more than 184,000 individuals of a healthcare data breach recently, according to a breach notice provided to the Maine Attorney General’s...

DOJ Takes Down Hive Ransomware Group

by Jill McKeon

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has successfully disrupted Hive ransomware group operations following a months-long effort. According to the DOJ press release, Hive has targeted more than 1,500...

Downloaders, Ransomware, Among Top Healthcare Cyberattack Tactics in Q4

by Jill McKeon

Ransomware remained a primary healthcare cyberattack tactic in Q4 2022, BlackBerry noted in its new Global Threat Intelligence Report. BlackBerry's Threat Research and Intelligence team leveraged...

How An Independent Practice Recovered From a Third-Party Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

When Ed Bujold, MD, FAAFP, of Granite Falls Family Medical Care Center in North Carolina, found out in October 2021 that his practice had been impacted by a ransomware attack waged against its cloud vendor, he realized that he had three...

CommonSpirit Health Faces Class Action Lawsuit in Wake of Healthcare Data Breach

by Jill McKeon

CommonSpirit Health is now facing a class action lawsuit in the aftermath of a Fall 2022 cyberattack that impacted facilities across one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the US. As...

How Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Can Help Sector Enhance Security Efforts

by Jill McKeon

Healthcare cybersecurity benchmarking data can help health IT experts make data-driven decisions, evaluate program effectiveness, and improve their organization’s overall security posture, a new...

Ransomware Operators Continue to Aggressively Target US Healthcare Sector

by Jill McKeon

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest brief outlines the tactics and exploitation techniques used by Royal ransomware and BlackCat ransomware, two threats that...

Larger Organizations Most Likely to Be Affected by Ransomware Attacks

by Sarai Rodriguez

The number of ransomware attacks has dropped by more than 60 percent between 2021 to 2022, according to a survey conducted on Delinea's behalf by Censuswide. The survey of over 300 respondents...

Global Cyberattacks Increased By 38% Last Year, Healthcare Hit Hard

by Jill McKeon

Global cyberattacks increased by 38 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, new data from Check Point Research revealed. Healthcare was one of the three most attacked industries in 2022 according to Check...

Consulate Healthcare Provides Notice of Third-Party Vendor Data Breach

by Jill McKeon

Consulate Healthcare, which operates 140 nursing homes across the United States, began notifying an undetermined number of individuals of a third-party vendor data breach. According to the notice on...

NJ Health System Diverts Ambulances Amid “IT Network Issue”

by Jill McKeon

CentraState Healthcare System in New Jersey is experiencing an IT network issue that is impacting some of its patient services. The issue began on December 29. Tom Scott, president and CEO of...

HC3: Clop Ransomware Group Preying on Healthcare Sector

by Jill McKeon

Although the group has been active since 2019, Clop ransomware appears to be shifting its tactics in ways that pose direct threats to the healthcare sector, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination...

Healthcare Ransomware Attacks More Than Doubled Over Past 5 Years

by Jill McKeon

The number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, from 43 in 2016 to 91 in 2021, according to a study published recently in JAMA Health Forum. The cohort study relied on...

Scripps Health Reaches $3.5M Settlement After Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

Scripps Health in San Diego reached a $3.5 million proposed settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit stemming from a May 2021 ransomware attack and subsequent breach that impacted 2.1 million...

Third-Party Data Breach Impacts 271K at Oklahoma Healthcare Administrative, Tech Services Company

by Jill McKeon

Oklahoma-based Avem Health Partners, which provides administrative and technology services to healthcare organizations, notified 271,303 individuals of a healthcare data breach that occurred at 365...

HHS Warns Healthcare Sector of LockBit 3.0, BlackCat Ransomware

by Jill McKeon

The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued two new analyst notes detailing the tactics and indicators of compromise for LockBit 3.0 and BlackCat. The LockBit ransomware family...