Malware

Emotet Reemerges with Massive Campaign Targeting Pharma Industry

by Jessica Davis

Proofpoint is urging all organizations to take steps to shore up any vulnerabilities, after detecting a massive Emotet campaign targeting the pharmaceutical industry. The hacking group behind Emotet is...

Evasive Domain-Impersonation Phishing Attacks Increase by 400%

by Jessica Davis

Barracuda researchers detected a 400 percent increase in domain-impersonation attacks aimed at conversation hijacking since July. While the method is used far less frequently than other phishing attack...

More Health Quest Patients Added to 2018 Phishing Attack Victims

by Jessica Davis

New York-based Health Quest recently began another round of breach notification letters, after discovering more patient data than initially estimated was compromised during a 2018 phishing...

NSA Discloses, Urges Patch of Critical Microsoft Windows 10 Vulnerability

by Jessica Davis

The National Security Agency discovered a critical spoofing vulnerability impacting Microsoft Windows 10, which could allow an attacker to undermine the verification of cryptographic trust and allow...

Feds Alert to Ongoing Cyberattacks on Unpatched Pulse VPN Servers

by Jessica Davis

Pulse Secure VPN servers are being exploited with cyberattacks looking to exploit known vulnerabilities in its remote code execution (RCE), according to an alert from the Department of Homeland...

Data of 50K Alomere Health Patients Exposed by Employee Email Hack

by Jessica Davis

Minnesota-based Alomere Health is notifying 49,351 patients that their medical data was potentially exposed during a hack on two employee email accounts. Hospital staff first discovered unauthorized...

Is Healthcare Prepared to Respond to Cyber Threats Beyond Ransomware?

by Jessica Davis

The last few months of cyberattacks, especially ransomware incidents, demonstrated healthcare providers aren’t fully prepared for the new age of sophisticated threats. As the Department of...

FBI Alerts to Rise in Maze Ransomware, Extortion Attempts

by Jessica Davis

The FBI recently began warning the private sector of a rise in Maze ransomware attacks, where the cybercriminals pose as legitimate security vendors or government agencies to encrypt and steal data. In...

New Mexico Hospital Finds Malware Infection on Digital Imaging Server

by Jessica Davis

New Mexico-based Roosevelt General Hospital discovered malware on the digital imaging server of its radiology department, which possibly allowed hackers to view the digital medical images of about 500...