American Hospital Association, November 30, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) last week advised biotechnology companies specifically and the health care and public health sector generally to review a new report on a malware threat aggressively spreading through the biomanufacturing industry and take appropriation action to protect their information infrastructure. According to HC3, the malware is used to deliver ransomware, “possibly as a diversion for the actual purpose of the attack — intellectual property theft.