Edge computing adoption in healthcare is growing at fast rates as 5G takes hold, AT&T’s latest Cybersecurity Insights Report found. Nearly three-quarters of healthcare industry respondents...
Threat actors are leveraging Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) models, double extortion, and software vulnerability exploits over traditional data encryption, a new report by Abnormal Security discovered....
From the fields of Fenway Park to the halls of the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to the classrooms of the University of...
The FBI began investigating a wave of targeted ransomware attacks against at least a dozen US hospitals, health systems, and healthcare providers in October 2020. Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon was...
When the FBi warned of the active ransomware attack wave against providers in the Fall of 2020, it heightened reporting and highlighted the need for proactive security measures to protect the...
The multiple, massive cybersecurity incidents across the globe have demonstrated the ease in which threat actors can take control over critical infrastructure entities and their valuable data. For...
The COVID-19 response resulted in a virtual care boom that’s expected to last well beyond the pandemic. As telehealth continues to support the shift in healthcare, ensuring a minimal security...
Over the last year, there’s been a decided shift in the threat landscape in terms of impact and frequency. From crippling outages at Colonial Pipeline and Scripps Health, to the rise in double...
Reports consistently highlight the risk of vulnerability exploits and ransomware to healthcare. But email is often the key access point in these attacks, through phishing and stolen credentials. As insiders remain a leading threat,...
At least 75 percent of healthcare entities are impacted by a host of TCP/IP vulnerabilities, uncovered by Forescout Research Labs within the last year. NUMBER:JACK, NAME:WRECK, and AMNESIA:33 are found...
Scripps Health in San Diego was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, forcing the health system into EHR downtime. Some critical care patients were diverted and the online patient portal...
A group of nine DNS vulnerabilities in four popular TCP/IP stacks used in more than 100 million enterprise, consumer, and industrial IoT devices pose a critical risk of hacking or remote code execution...
Data extortion was once seen as a rare, or potential threat, rather than a pressing issue, while ransomware and subsequent downtime were greater concerns for healthcare cybersecurity. But...
The information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act officially went into effect this week, putting into focus the Department of Health and Human Services’ regulatory and compliance...
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...
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...
The threat landscape in the past year has demonstrated just how low cybercriminals will stoop to make a quick payout. The healthcare sector, already burdened with the COVID-19 pandemic response,...
One of the key challenges facing healthcare organizations is a lack of control over access management. With a vast number of vendors and endpoints, visibility into identity governance and an effective...
Two of the most prolific cyber threats have been disrupted by global Federal efforts this week. The notorious Emotet botnet was taken down through a global collaboration, while the FBI and the...
Ransomware is often the prime headline-stealing topic when it comes to cybersecurity and risks to the healthcare sector. But many entities often overlook the dominance of insider threats and its...
