by kcarten | Sep 9, 2021 | News, Ransomware
Becker’s Health IT, September 9, 2021 Queen Creek, Ariz.-based Desert Wells Family Medicine recently began notifying 35,000 patients that their EHR data was compromised by a ransomware attack. Read full Becker’s Health IT article.
by kcarten | Sep 9, 2021 | News, Ransomware
Health IT Security, September 9, 2021 HC3, HHS’s cybersecurity arm, released a threat brief breaking down the BlackMatter ransomware group’s origins, threat tactics, and likely targets. Read full Health IT Security article.
by kcarten | Sep 9, 2021 | News, Ransomware
SC Media, September 9, 2021 Critical attacks against health care thrived in the last year. Now, as patient volumes continue to surge in some parts of the country, safety concerns grow increasingly dire. And yet, say experts, specific data that clearly demonstrates the...
by kcarten | Sep 8, 2021 | News, Ransomware
ET Healthworld, September 8, 2021 The healthcare industry makes for an easy target for malicious actors, given its relative nascency to cyber threats and the resultant lax cybersecurity practices. Read full ET Healthworld article.
by kcarten | Sep 8, 2021 | News, Ransomware
SC Media, September 8, 2021 Ransomware is not new in a sense that malware can encrypt files and do bad things, said Eric Decker, a chief information security officer in the health care industry. But around 2015 or 2016, he said organized crime began to leverage it as...
by kcarten | Sep 8, 2021 | News, Ransomware
SC Media, September 8, 2021 If data has value, then electronic health records are a treasure trove. Today’s emboldened and ever-more-sophisticated cyber criminals know this. With many healthcare organizations again stretched thin to address raising COVID-19 case...
