Ongoing EHR downtime at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) is causing continued appointment cancelations on Monday, November 15. The medical center first alerted patients to “unplanned downtime...
HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a brief warning the healthcare sector of the threat of Cobalt Strike, a remote access tool that was originally created to defend...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced two indictments connected to REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware. The actions were part of the DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force, which was...
Unidentified hackers breached at least nine organizations in the energy, technology, education, defense, and healthcare sectors in a large-scale cyber espionage attack, Palo Alto Networks discovered,...
Over half of surveyed IT professionals said that their organization has been hit by a healthcare ransomware attack. But 61 percent of surveyed potential patients said that they had not heard of any...
An EHR vendor began notifying its clients of a data breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of nearly 320,000 individuals....
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks flood a victim’s network with traffic, rendering network resources unusable. Often, DDoS attacks serve as a distraction while bad actors deploy more sinister malware on their...
Holiday ransomware attacks, compromised medical records, and network outages continue to overwhelm healthcare organizations.
Despite an increase in cyber threats, recent research suggested that 42...
Two Texas hospitals, Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital and Lavaca Medical Center began notifying patients of recent cyberattacks that exposed protected health information (PHI).
Throckmorton...
Unlike other threat actors that shy away from deploying ransomware on critical infrastructure, education, and healthcare, FIN12 ransomware group specializes in targeted attacks on the healthcare sector.
Nearly 20 percent of threat...
The cybersecurity workforce gap narrowed for the second consecutive year, but the global workforce still must grow by 65 percent in order to effectively defend critical assets and data, according to...
Russian-linked hacking group Nobelium poses a significant threat to the global IT supply chain, Microsoft warned in a recent blog post. Threats to the IT supply chain could have an immense impact on...
Both Humana and Anthem began notifying members that their protected health information (PHI) had been exposed following a ransomware attack on billing and IT solutions vendor PracticeMax.
Humana and...
A Michigan man was sentenced to a total of 84 months of incarceration for hacking the human resources databases of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and stealing the personally...
International governments hacked and forced REvil ransomware group offline, according to Reuters. REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, were connected to a May cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline and a July...
HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center's (HC3) monthly bulletin alerted the healthcare sector to today’s top healthcare cyber threats and vulnerabilities to watch...
Chief information security officers (CISOs) across a variety of industries, including healthcare, cited ransomware as their current top concern, according to research conducted by CISOs Connect,...
Hospitals and health systems continue to face an overwhelming amount of cyberattacks, spoofing and phishing incidents, and breaches resulting from unauthorized email access.
Threat actors such as...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released an analyst note outlining the top 10 global and US ransomware threat actors in Q3 2021 who are targeting the healthcare sector....
President Biden met with world leaders from over 30 nations and pledged to tackle ransomware threats and promote cyber resilience together, according to a White House press release. The countries...
