The ransomware attack that resulted in EHR outages at all 400 Universal Healthcare Services’ care sites for about three weeks last year, resulted in about $67 million in lost operating...
Cyberattacks on healthcare more than doubled in 2020, with ransomware accounting for 28 percent of all attacks. COVID-19 response efforts, including personal protective equipment and the vaccine supply...
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...
In the last few days, three healthcare-related entities reported data breaches or system outages due to ransomware. Kroger informed patients it was part of the massive Accellion data breach, and...
Demand for backdoor access to healthcare networks drastically increased last year, as did the number of hackers gaining and selling backdoor access on the dark web, according to CTIL research.
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Sutter Buttes Imaging (SBI) is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was compromised for 18 months, due to a leak caused by a vulnerability in its third-party IT...
In two separate actions this week, federal efforts have stymied global cybercriminal activities. The Department of Justice indicted the creators of WannaCry, while transnational government cyber...
A lawsuit has been filed against Wilmington Surgical Associates in response to a ransomware attack in October. Allegedly, the Netwalker hacking group stole a trove of 13GB of data from the North...
The treat actors behind Avaddon, Conti, and REvil ransomware have yet again leaked more data from healthcare-related entities. The latest data dumps include troves of health information allegedly...
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,...
The Conti ransomware hacking group recently released two massive healthcare data dumps tied to Leon Medical Centers and Nocona General Hospital on the dark web for sale. The leaks follow a newly...
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...
US Fertility (USF) has been sued by the individuals impacted by its September ransomware attack, after the threat actors gained access to the third-party vendor’s network for a month and...
Michigan-based Beaumont Health was forced to shut down its tool for scheduling COVID-19 vaccine appointments over the weekend, after an unauthorized actor exploited a flaw in the Epic platform.
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A healthcare data breach lawsuit against Brandywine Urology Consultants has been dismissed by the Delaware Superior Court, as the victims failed to provide evidence of injuries or losses caused by the...
Two of the most prolific cyber threats have been disrupted by global Federal efforts this week. The notorious Emotet botnet was taken down through a global collaboration, while the FBI and the...
A cyberattack on Washington’s Okanogan County government computer infrastructure has driven multiple regional offices offline, including the Public Health department, according to a news...
A guardian of a patient whose information was included in last year's Blackbaud data breach has sued Rady Children’s Hospital over the incident. Blackbaud is a third-party vendor of the...
