Ransomware Impacts
Healthcare Ransomware Attack at Indiana ENT Office Impacts 45K
Health IT Security, August 26, 2021
Indiana-based CarePointe ENT suffered a healthcare ransomware attack that may have exposed the PII and PHI of over 48,000 individuals.
Is Your Healthcare Organization Following These Four Ransomware Best Practices?
Security Boulevard, August 24, 2021
Healthcare is the most targeted sector for data breaches and ransomware attacks were responsible for almost 50% of all healthcare data breaches in 2020, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services Cyber Security Program 2021 Forecast. While ransomware has been a favorite among attackers for years now, the rate continues to rise each year.
The rise of ransomware within healthcare
Open Access Government, August 23, 2021
David Higgins, EMEA Technical Director, CyberArk, explores three reasons why healthcare organisations are extra vulnerable to ransomware.
Health sector deals with ransomware, data breaches as COVID cases rise
SC MEDIA, August 20, 2021
Ransomware actors are having a productive week with several ongoing outages in the health care sector, including Memorial Health System and Eskenazi Health. What’s worse, the pervasive threat is continuing to disrupt the health sector, as it continues to battle another COVID-19 wave.
US healthcare org sends data breach warning to 1.4m patients following ransomware attack
THE DAILY SWIG, August 19, 2021
The medical and financial data of 1.4 million people was potentially exposed earlier this year in the latest ransomware attack to hit a major US healthcare provider.
St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C), the largest healthcare network in Savannah, Georgia, says in a statement that it first detected the breach on June 17.
After it isolated its systems, an investigation carried out with the help of external security firms found that the attackers had originally gained access on December 20 last year.
THE PANDEMIC REVEALED THE HEALTH RISKS OF HOSPITAL RANSOMWARE ATTACKS
THE VERGE, August 19, 2021
In late October 2020, the University of Vermont Health Network was hit by a ransomware attack. The system couldn’t access electronic health records for nearly a month. Every computer at UVM Medical Center was infected with malware. Hospitals in the network delayed chemotherapy and mammogram appointments, just as COVID-19 cases in the United States started to tick upward in what would become an enormous winter wave.
Ransomware attack knocks out systems at Ohio and W. Virginia healthcare provider
SILICON ANGLE, August 17, 2021
The Memorial Health System, a healthcare provider in Ohio and West Virginia, has been struck by a ransomware attack that knocked systems offline and forced hospital staff to use paper charts.
Surgeries canceled, care diverted as Memorial Health responds to cyberattack
SC Media, August 16, 2021
Memorial Health System in Ohio is currently operating under electronic health record (EHR) downtime procedures and diverting emergency care patients, after a cyberattack struck its network during the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 15. All radiology exams and urgent surgical cases scheduled for Aug. 16 have also been canceled as a result.
Ransomware in Healthcare: The Costly Reality of Withstanding Hackers
HIT Consultant, August 13, 2021
How much larger a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) can healthcare command?
This isn’t a rhetorical question, even if it may be difficult to come up with a direct answer.
How Health Facilities Can Prevent, Mitigate Ransomware in 2021
Health IT Security, August 13, 2021
Ransomware is continuing to impact the healthcare industry, which has seen a rise in cyber-attacks since the start of the pandemic.
Medtechs need to up their cybersecurity threat modeling game, FDA says
Medtech Dive, August 13, 2021
Medtech companies must design and develop devices that “have far more robust security built in” to keep pace with emerging cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities, said Suzanne Schwartz, director of CDRH’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation. To do that, Schwartz says medtechs need better threat models that lay out what hackers might do to target a device and how to protect it.
Two ransomware gangs, Vice Society and Magniber, said to launch attacks via PrintNightmare
SC Media, August 13, 2021
Researchers over the past couple of days reported that two different ransomware gangs — one fairly new, the other several years old — have been actively exploiting the PrintNightmare vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service to launch ransomware attacks.
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