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 (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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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, 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...