The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert for a newer ransomware variant and remote access trojan (RAT) spotted in the wild using publicly...
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...
Driven by Clop actors and the Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) hack, exfiltration and extortion attempts are now occurring in the vast majority of ransomware attacks, increasing from 70 percent...
The Ryuk ransomware variant has been updated, yet again. A recent Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel) report shows the threat actors are increasingly relying on service-based remote desktop protocols...
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Plan District of Columbia (CHPDC), formerly known as Trusted Health Plan, recently notified 200,665 plan members that their data was compromised and...
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...
Ransomware threat actors are continuing to target the healthcare sector in droves. In the last month alone four hacking groups have posted data allegedly stolen from nine healthcare providers, while an...
An active cyberattack campaign was spotted in the wild, targeting systems running unpatched or misconfigured SAP systems. Threat actors are exploiting these vulnerabilities to gain full control of the...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ breach reporting tool shows over 1.3 million patients of Centene subsidiaries were impacted by the massive Accellion File Transfer Appliance...
It’s been about three weeks since Microsoft released a software update for four-zero day flaws within on-prem Exchange servers and an estimated 30,000, or 8 percent, remain unpatched....
In the last few weeks, the ransomware hackers behind Conti, Babuk, and Avaddon leaked data they claim to have stolen from at least five healthcare entities, which should serve as a warning to the...
The latest FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime cost individuals and US businesses about $4.2 billion in losses in 2020, up 69 percent from $3.5 billion in 2019. Phishing, non-payment...
Healthcare business associate Peak TPA is notifying 50,000 PACE program patients that their data was stolen from two of its cloud servers by an attacker. The third-party administrator supports claims...
Trillium Community Health Plan and the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine recently reported some of their patient data was involved in the exploit of Accellion’s File Transfer...
Woodcreek Provider Services and Elara Caring recently reported healthcare data breaches impacting more than 300,000 patients. The tallies are some of the largest reported in the healthcare sector...
The FBI is currently investigating at least two separate ransomware incidents: one attack on Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care in New Mexico and another on Allergy Partners care sites in North...
Arizona-based Cochise Eye and Laser recently notified 100,000 patients that their data was potentially compromised or deleted after a ransomware attack on January 13. The provider operates three sites...
MITRE recently unveiled a newly created ransomware resource, which is designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers develop and maintain resilient security processes and policies in...
The number of phishing campaigns delivering malware has drastically decreased in recent years, with just 12 percent of phishing deploying malware. On the other hand, 57 percent of all phishing...
The notorious Ryuk ransomware variant has been spotted in the wild by CERT-FR, the French government’s cybersecurity agency, updated with worming capabilities that allow it to automatically...
