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Privacy Groups Urge Pence to Combat COVID-19 Fraud, Patient Harms

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A group of more than 30 national advocacy, industry, and research groups are calling on Vice President Mike Pence and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the Department of Justice, and the Food and...

Hackers, APTs Exploiting COVID-19 with Phishing Attacks, Fraud Schemes

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Cybercriminals and advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are exploiting the Coronavirus pandemic with COVID-19-related scams and phishing attacks, according to a joint alert from the Department of...

Zoom Enacts CISO Advisory Board, as COVID-19 Fuels Privacy Issues

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Zoom announced it instated a CISO Council and Advisory Board in response to privacy concerns that have come to light, as popularity of the app has soared to more than 200 million users during the...

Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack

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Hackers successfully targeted and infected California-based 10x Genomics in March, as the biotechnology research firm worked to gain insights into the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to a US...

82% of Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers Remain Unpatched

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A few weeks following the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency alerted to hackers targeting a critical Microsoft Exchange server vulnerability, a new...

COVID-19 Business Email Compromise Schemes, Ransomware Escalating

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Hospitals and other healthcare providers are increasingly being targeted with ransomware attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Interpol. The news comes as the FBI alerts all sectors to an...

Sens. Probe Privacy, Cybersecurity of Apple COVID-19 Screening Tools

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Apple recently announced the launch of a new COVID-19 screening app and website based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In response, a group of Senators are looking into...

FBI: COVID-19 Spurs Increase in Zoom, Video-Conferencing Hijacking

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The FBI released insights into ways organizations can defend against video-teleconferencing hijacking attempts, in the wake of a rise in “Zoombombing” attacks on the Zoom VTC platform...

OCR Permits Business Associates to Share Patient Data During COVID-19

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The Office for Civil Rights will waive penalties for HIPAA noncompliance against providers or business associates over the good faith use and disclosure of protected health information during the...

Zoom to Halt Feature Development to Bolster Privacy, Security for COVID-19

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Zoom announced it plans to enact a freeze on all feature development and shift its engineering resources for the next 90 days to focus on privacy and security issues, in light of recent cybersecurity...

Brute-Force Hacking Campaign Targets Microsoft SQL Servers

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Hackers are brute-force attacking vulnerable Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) servers to deploy backdoors that install crytominers and remote access trojans (RATs), racking up thousands of servers each day,...

Microsoft Shares Health Sector COVID-19 Ransomware Insights

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Hackers are targeting network devices like gateway and virtual private network (VPN) appliances, as organizations have moved to a remote workforce during the COVID-19 crisis, including a rise in...

Amid COVID-19 Telehealth Use, Sen. Probes Zoom on Privacy Practices

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, sent a letter to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, asking for insights into the video conferencing platform’s privacy and security practices, given the drastic increase...

Must-Have Telehealth, Remote Work Privacy and Security for COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly expanded the use of telehealth, telemedicine, remote work, and bring-your-own-device, both on-site and remote in the healthcare sector. But while some outlets have...

FBI Again Alerts to Kwampirs Malware Supply Chain Cyberattacks

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The FBI released a Private Industry Notification, which again warns organizations that Kwampirs malware is being leveraged in ongoing supply chain cyberattacks targeting global...

Zoom Domains Targeted by Hackers, as Use Surges with COVID-19

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Hackers are utilizing the popularity of the videoconferencing platform Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting the platform with cyberattacks to install malware, according to recent Check...

NIST Shares Cyber Risk Management, Mobile Guides; Impact Analysis Tool

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NIST released several draft frameworks for comment over the last week focused around integrating cybersecurity and enterprise risk management and managing enterprise mobile device security, along with...

COVID-19 Cyber Threats: Hackers Target DNS Routers, Remote Work

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Europol released a report showing how hackers are profiting off of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning hackers are shifting attacks to remote workers and the healthcare sector. Meanwhile, researchers...

Microsoft Warns Hackers Targeting Unpatched RCE Windows Flaws

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Microsoft is warning organizations that hackers are actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities found in its Windows Adobe Type Manager Library on all supported platforms running server and...

140K Patients Impacted in Tandem Diabetes Care Phishing Attack

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About 140,000 patients of Tandem Diabetes Care are being notified their data was potentially compromised after several employee email accounts were compromised during a phishing attack. Tandem is a...