The healthcare sector has been inundated with cyberattacks in 2020 and 2021. Though they come from all different angles, the top one, by far, is email. If email is not protected, breaches will happen....
Private hospitals in need of ransomware assistance can now leverage a free malicious domain blocking and reporting (MDBR) service from the Center for Internet Security and Akamai, offered...
Threat actors are bypassing traditional URL security defenses with malformed URL protocols to attack end users, according to new data from GreatHorn Threat Intelligence Team. Pharmaceutical companies...
A ransomware attack that struck Nebraska Medicine in the Fall potentially led to the data theft and compromise of information from 219,000 patients. The September security incident spurred...
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,...
As the world races to vaccinate its citizens, providers, hospitals, and research teams have rapidly deployed technologies to support the COVID-19 response. In turn, cybercriminals are preying on the thinly stretched supply chain with...
Ransomware threat actors are increasingly leveraging email phishing as the leading entry point in these destructive attacks, as Coveware analysis shows data exfiltration occurs in 70 percent of all...
The ransomware surge during the last few months has already continued into 2021. And though the malware will remain a key trend into this year, healthcare industry stakeholders will need adopt a...
Recent Proofpoint research shows hackers are continuing to prey on fears tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. And as the vaccine rollout continues, social engineering lures are being leveraged in malware,...
Threat actors are increasingly using voice phishing, or vishing, in targeted attacks on remote workers in an effort to steal credentials, escalate privileges, and gain proliferated network access,...
The hackers who stole COVID-19 vaccine data belonging to Pfizer and BioNTech from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a regulatory agency, and leaked the information online in December,...
The European Medicines Agency discovered hackers have posted online the COVID-19 vaccine data exfiltrated during an earlier cyberattack on the EU regulator. As previously reported, the hacked server...
All private sector organizations are being urged to be on the alert for potential malicious activities from the threat actors behind Egregor ransomware. The FBI alert warns the hacking group is...
Lake Region Healthcare (LRH) was hit with a ransomware attack a few days before Christmas, resulting in some computer system outages and disrupting certain operations. The Minnesota health system is...
All private sector organizations should be on the alert for fraud schemes tied to the COVID-19 vaccine, as multiple complaints have been received by the Department of Health and Human Services Office...
The number of victims impacted by the email hack on EyeMed reported earlier this month has drastically increased, as the Department of Health and Human Services breach reporting tool shows 484,157...
Recent spear-phishing campaigns are again targeting Microsoft Office 365 users in an effort to steal user credentials, while one campaign spoofs Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP),...
New reports from Armorblox and KnowBe4 show threat actors are continuing to prey on fears around the global COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging lures designed to increase the likelihood of success....
GBMC HealthCare in Maryland is currently operating under planned EHR downtime procedures, after falling victim to a ransomware attack on Sunday, December 6.
The malware infected its IT systems,...
A proposed $4.2 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) and the 130,000 patients affected by a monthslong data breach reported by...