The Center for Democracy & Technology and the eHealth Initiative & Foundation (eHI) released a newly proposed consumer health data privacy framework, which aims to better secure the privacy of...
A privilege escalation flaw in Microsoft Win32k could allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
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...
One of the key challenges facing healthcare organizations is a lack of control over access management. With a vast number of vendors and endpoints, visibility into identity governance and an effective...
Threat actors with ties to China are continuing to target US healthcare, genomic, and other valuable data through hacking and other malicious activities, according to a recent alert from the National...
Two employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs concealed and made false representations about the privacy and security risks of a 2016 AI health data project between the agency and Flow...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency released an alert warning of a new malware variant known as SUPERNOVA, which is being used to target vulnerable...
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...
NIST released a proposed guide designed to support the use of information exchange channels, which provides insights on risk-based considerations to protect data throughout the sharing process and case...
A recent report from Netscout revealed that threat actors can abuse the Microsoft remote desktop protocol (RDP) to amplify denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Researchers identified over 14,000 servers...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently unveiled a campaign designed to tackle ransomware risks and threats across the US. Earlier, CISA shared...
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...
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,...
In the midst of responding to COVID-19, the healthcare sector faced a significant number of ransomware attacks in 2020 with 560 healthcare provider facilities falling victim to the malware variant,...
Cloud security and connected medical device security are the biggest IT challenges healthcare entities are facing under the current landscape, according to 46 percent of IT leaders surveyed...
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...
The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert, warning that the advanced persistent threat (APT) actors behind the SolarWinds cyberattack...
A host of security researchers are warning private sector organizations that threat actors are actively targeting a critical vulnerability found in Zyxel Communication platforms, in an effort to take...
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...
