Healthcare cybersecurity threats continue to cast a dark shadow on the already overburdened US healthcare system, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Feeding on global chaos, threat actors have orchestrated sophisticated...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Deborah Ross (D-NC) introduced the Ransom Disclosure Act, which aims to require ransomware victims to report ransom payment information to the...
New cyber threats are constantly emerging, leaving organizations vulnerable to healthcare protected health information (PHI) breaches, ransomware, and unauthorized access incidents.
Recent data...
Cryptocurrency has become an asset for bad actors who use the platforms to demand ransom, launder money, and facilitate other illegal activity. As a result, Lisa O. Monaco, the Department of...
Nearly 20 percent of FIN12 ransomware group’s cyberattacks were targeted at the healthcare sector, and over 70 percent of attacks were targeted at US-based entities, a new report from Mandiant...
President Biden announced that the United States would assemble a meeting of 30 countries to discuss how to combat and mitigate ransomware and cyber threats. The action builds upon Biden’s...
McAfee’s quarterly cyber threat report revealed troubling statistics about the current state of ransomware, showing that 73 percent of ransomware detections in Q2 2021 were credited to the...
Three Indiana healthcare providers suffered unrelated healthcare data breaches recently, again signaling an increase in cyberattacks and data breaches across the nation.
Eskenazi Health in Indiana...
HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released a threat brief warning the heath sector of LockBit Ransomware, a hacking group that orchestrated an attack on Ireland-based...
Indiana-based Johnson Memorial Health announced that it fell victim to a healthcare cyberattack on Saturday, October 2. The health system’s computer network is still down and the FBI is...
A baby born at Springhill Medical Center in Alabama later died due to diminished care that resulted from a 2019 healthcare ransomware attack, a lawsuit alleged. The case marks the first public claim...
As COVID-19 continues to overwhelm providers across the country, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller facilities with sophisticated healthcare ransomware attacks that cause EHR downtime...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) released an advisory warning organizations of Conti ransomware group, a notorious hacking...
The US Department of the Treasury announced its first ever sanction against a cryptocurrency exchange SUEX for its alleged role in facilitating ransomware payments for cybercriminals.
The...
Recent data breaches continue to show the growing prevalence of Hive ransomware and other hacking groups as they continue to infiltrate the networks of US healthcare providers.
High-profile...
The Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Health Information Management Working Group recently released guidance warning healthcare delivery organizations about the growing threat of ransomware in the...
Financial strain, care disruptions, and time-consuming recovery operations often result from healthcare ransomware attacks, but new research revealed that increased patient mortality is also likely in...
Two class action lawsuits were filed against St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) alleging that the large Georgia health system was negligent in preventing a December 2020 ransomware attack that went...
Gastroenterology Consultants in Houston, Texas, began notifying over 161,000 patients of a January ransomware attack on August 6. The notification came as a surprise to many patients who were unaware...
Arizona-based Queen Creek Medical Center, also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, will have to rebuild patient medical records from scratch after a ransomware attack corrupted and destroyed EHRs....
