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BlackMatter Ransomware Attacks Threaten Healthcare, HC3 Says
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.
Q&A: Mount Sinai’s Chris Frenz on Best Practices for Zero-Trust Implementation
Health Tech, September 9, 2021
Healthcare organizations should take the time to map out the assets and traffic within their environment when creating a new security framework.
Ransomware attack wipes out Arizona clinic’s EHR, corrupts 35,000 patients’ records
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.
BlackMatter Ransomware Attacks Threaten Healthcare, HC3 Says
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.
Risk to patient safety from cyberattacks critical, even as specifics about direct links remain elusive
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 impact of cyberattacks on patient care remains elusive. This reality, in fact, further complicates an already complex effort among health care providers to establish technology plans and processes that put patient safety and care first.
Cyber Vulnerability is Healthcare’s Modern Malaise
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.
Listen: How ransomware put the health sector on notice
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 a tool in far more disruptive and destructive ways.
Why ransomware attacks in healthcare remain a problem – and how to stop them
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 counts, there’s little doubt that we will see a steady drumbeat of new ransomware attacks, building on the record number so far this year.
Healthcare Ransomware Attack in CA Involves PHI of 57K
Health IT Security, September 7, 2021
San Andreas Regional Center in California experienced a healthcare ransomware attack that may have exposed the PHI of over 57,000 individuals.
The Ideal Ransomware Victim: What Attackers Are Looking For
KELA, September 6, 2021
In July 2021, KELA observed threat actors creating multiple threads where they claimed they are ready to buy accesses and described their conditions. Some of them appear to use access for deploying info-stealing malware and carrying out other malicious activities. Others aim to plant ransomware and steal data.