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Security Week, January 10, 2022 Ransomware has grown from humble beginnings as threat-based scams to a worldwide criminal phenomenon. It has been a continuous process of extortion refinement, with criminals adapting their behavior to maximize their financial return....

SC Media, January 7, 2022 A new Department of Health and Human Services Cybersecurity Program alert is reminding the healthcare sector of ongoing cyberattacks by the Mespinoza cybercriminal group, which has highly targeted the healthcare sector over the last two years...

Health IT Security, January 6, 2022 As a new year begins, threat actors are continuing to overwhelm providers and patients with healthcare data breaches. Some experts predict that ransomware actors will favor data exfiltration over encryption this year and that they...

Tech HQ, January 5, 2022 Cybersecurity is a growing issue across all industries, with no signs of slowing down Two-thirds of health delivery organizations have been victims of ransomware attacks, while 33% have been hit twice or more Governments must enforce existing...

The Hacker News, January 3, 2022 In May 2017, the first documented ransomware assault on networked medical equipment happened. The worldwide ransomware assault WannaCry compromised radiological and other instruments in several hospitals during its height, after a...

Bleeping Computer, December 31, 2021 The healthcare sector has been the target of hundreds of cyberattacks this year. A tally of public data breach reports so far shows that tens of millions of healthcare records have been exposed to unauthorized parties. Most of the...

Health IT Security, December 29, 2021 More than half of surveyed security professionals reported viewing ransomware and terrorism as equal threats, echoing the DOJ’s sentiments. Read full Health IT Security article.

News Tribune, December 23, 2021 Capital Region Medical Center broke its silence Wednesday on an incident that left its network and phone systems down over the past six days. CRMC discovered a disruption early Friday morning to its network systems. It disabled its...

Health IT Security, December 22, 2021 A study from (ISC)² shows that C-suite executives are looking for clearer communication and guidance from cybersecurity leaders when it comes to combatting ransomware attacks. Read full Health IT Security article.

Health IT Security, December 22, 2021 The Log4j vulnerability poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector, and most legacy systems cannot be patched. Read full Health IT Security article.

ZD Net, December 22, 2021 Gang typically targets finance, government and healthcare organizations. The relatively new Pysa ransomware was the dominant strain behind file-encrypting attacks in November and saw a 400% rise in attacks on government organizations,...

Campus Safety, December 21, 2021 The FDA encourages manufacturers to communicate with healthcare customers and follow recommendations provided by CISA. Read full Campus Safety article.

SC Media, December 21, 2021 The biggest healthcare data breaches reported in 2021 each impacted more than 1 million patients, with more than 22.64 million patients affected overall. Considering the runner-up incident claimed 1.2 million breach victims, the year has...

Security Boulevard, December 21, 2021 As if healthcare didn’t have enough to worry about, with overpacked facilities and overworked staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, cyberattacks on healthcare systems and medical devices are rapidly growing in number and...

CPO Magazine, December 21, 2021 While it is far from uncommon for an organization to announce that it has been hit by a ransomware attack, two in one week is an unusual event. Brazil’s Health Ministry is looking at extended downtime for the system that processes...

Tulsa World, December 19, 2021 Eight months and $2 million in repairs and upgrades later, the city’s computer system is back up and running at full speed, city officials said. A ransomware attack in late April damaged about 40% of the city’s 471 servers and about 20%...

Health IT Security, December 17, 2021 A dozen ransomware groups targeted healthcare despite making promises to not go after the sector, CyberPeace Institute data revealed. Read full Health IT Security article.

CPO Magazine, December 17, 2021 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that the Cuba ransomware gang earned more than $43.9 million in ransom after compromising at least 49 critical infrastructure entities. Read full CPO Magazine article.

Cybersecurity News, December 17, 2021 A dozen ransomware groups targeted healthcare despite making promises to not go after the sector, CyberPeace Institute data revealed. Read full Cybersecurity News article.

Health IT Security, December 16, 2021 HR management solutions provider Kronos was the target of a recent cyberattack that is now impacting healthcare workforce management and payroll services. Read full Health IT Security article.

Yahoo! Finance, December 13, 2021 The global healthcare cyber security market size is expected to reach USD 39.9 billion by 2028 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 18.0% from 2021 to 2028. Read full Yahoo! Finance article.

MENA FN, December 13, 2021 For more than the past decade, healthcare has been the biggest target of data breaches. The total average cost has increased to $9.23 million in 2021 from $7.13 million the previous year, demonstrating a 29.5% rise. Cyberattacks in...

ZD Net, December 13, 2021 A ransomware attack has hit agencies and commissions within the Virginia legislature, according to a statement from the governor's office to the Associated Press. Read full ZD Net article.

Yahoo! News, December 10, 2021 A report into the Health Service Executive (HSE) ransomware attack has found there were “several missed opportunities” to detect malicious activity. An independent review, carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, found that the HSE failed...

SC Media, December 10, 2021 It may not be wise to count on criminals to self-regulate. That is one implication of a new CyberPeace Institute blog researching ransomware groups whose wares have been used in attacks on healthcare facilities since May 2020. Of the 39...

Health IT Security, December 9, 2021 Cuba ransomware actors have compromised 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, a new FBI flash alert warned. Read full Health IT Security article.

SC Media, December 8, 2021 Recent lawsuits and media coverage have hyped the correlation between patient mortality and ransomware or cyberattacks. The sensationalized headlines serve to induce awareness, but are missing the point, explained Saif Abed, M.D., director...

Health IT Security, December 8, 2021 Washington-based senior care nonprofit Sound Generations experienced two data breaches that impacted over 103K individuals and potentially exposed PII. Read full Health IT Security article.

CSO, December 7, 2021 The actions, which temporarily took down REvil, raise questions about using the military to combat ransomware. Read full CSO article.

SC Media, December 6, 2021 Gen. Paul Nakasone, director of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, acknowledged the U.S. had begun "imposing cost" on ransomware groups in an interview with the New York Times, all but explicitly saying that the U.S. was...

MSN, December 6, 2021 Canada's cyber defence agency says more than half of Canadian ransomware victims in 2021 were in critical sectors like health care, energy and manufacturing. Now, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the RCMP are urging Canadian...

SC Media, December 6, 2021 Despite organizations continuing to invest heavily in the latest cybersecurity technologies and the realization that AV software can’t defend against most new attack vectors, cyberattacks are at an all-time high. This year has witnessed an...

SC Media, December 3, 2021 The FBI is warning industry that one ransomware group has been behind the compromise of at least 49 critical infrastructure entities, spanning the government, financial, healthcare, manufacturing and information technology sectors. Read full...

SC Media, December 3, 2021 The nation’s critical infrastructure industries face a great deal of work to identify and protect, detect and respond, and ultimately recover from cyberattacks, even as signs of some progress emerge. Read full SC Media article.

Health IT Security, December 2, 2021 Small to mid-size organizations and outpatient facilities continue to be targets for healthcare cyberattacks that often lead to PHI exposure. Read full Health IT Security article.

SC Media, December 2, 2021 Planned Parenthood Los Angeles filed a breach notice with the California Attorney General, notifying 400,000 patients that their data was exfiltrated during a weeklong hack launched by ransomware threat actors. Read full SC Media...

Express Healthcare, November 18, 2021 Mark Brown, MD-Cybersecurity, Information and Resilience, British Standards Institution (BSI) talks about the immediacy of cybersecurity in primary healthcare. Read Mark Brown's interview.

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...

The Fast Mode, November 30, 2021 Last month saw an alarming rise in cyber attacks against healthcare facilities. Ransomware attacks across the globe locked 68 care providers out of their respective networks during Q3 of this year alone, threatening patient safety and...

Health IT Security, November 30, 2021 More than 550 organizations reported healthcare data breaches to HHS in 2021, impacting over 40 million individuals. Read full Health IT Security Article.

Fortinet, November 29, 2021 Fortinet recently surveyed 455 business leaders and cybersecurity professionals worldwide to gauge their state of readiness to defend against the growing challenge of ransomware. Most are very or extremely concerned about the threat of a...

Cyware Social, November 28, 2021 The healthcare sector has been under relentless pressure due to COVID-19 and cyberattacks. Healthcare facilities collect a lot of data, which makes them a lucrative target for cybercriminals. While healthcare facilities witness...

The Fast Mode, November 26, 2021 Critical infrastructure attacks and sky-high ransoms are just the beginning. Ransomware isn’t new, but the industrial complex behind today’s biggest attacks certainly is. Read full The Fast Mode article.

Healthcare Info Security, November 26, 2021 According to a recent report, 92 ransomware attacks occurred at healthcare organizations in the past year, a 470% increase from 2019. In response to questions about improving the integrity of healthcare systems, Dan Bowden,...

CPO Magazine, November 25, 2021 A recent spate of crippling ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations signals that these assaults remain a major threat to our healthcare system and may have led to the nation’s first ransomware-related death. Read full CPO...

Security Intelligence, November 24, 2021 The health care industry has been on the front lines a lot lately. Along with helping control the effects of COVID-19, it has been a prime target for ransomware. In a 2021 survey conducted of 597 health delivery organizations...

Health IT Security, November 24, 2021 Utah Imaging Associates began notifying nearly 600K of a healthcare data breach, and Eskenazi Health began notifying over 1.5 million individuals. Read full Health IT Security article.

WHEC, November 24, 2021 A ransomware attack on a local company exposed the personal information of its patients and employees. Upstate HomeCare said the attack happened earlier this year, but cybersecurity experts just found its documents posted on the dark web. Read...

SC Media, November 24, 2021 It’s that time of the year. Time to celebrate. Eat well. And sadly, to deal with even more cybercrime, especially ransomware attacks, according to one firm. Read full SC Media article.

Health IT Security, November 23, 2021 With a multitude of critical data and patient safety hanging in the balance, there is a unique set of healthcare cybersecurity challenges that must be carefully considered. Read full Health IT Security article.