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Gov Info Security, September 15, 2021 A proposed class action lawsuit filed this week against St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in the wake of a recent ransomware breach affecting 1.4 million individuals alleges that the Georgia-based healthcare entity was "reckless"...

MSN, September 13, 2021 Ransomware groups have shown no signs of slowing down their assault on hospitals, seemingly ramping up attacks on healthcare institutions as dozens of countries deal with a new wave of COVID-19 infections thanks to the potent Delta variant....

Digital Journal, September 11, 2021 The U.S. medical body, California health center LifeLong Medical Care, has been struck by a ransomware attack. The attack was sufficiently wide to leak personally identifiable information of around 115,000 patients across numerous...

Health IT Security, September 10, 2021 An Arizona medical center will have to rebuild thousands of patient records after a ransomware attack resulted in corrupted EHRs and data loss. Read full Health IT Security article.  

Dark Reading, September 10, 2021 Healthcare institutions in California and Arizona are sending breach notification letters after attackers compromised thousands of patients' data. Read full Dark Reading article.

ZD Net, September 10, 2021 LifeLong Medical Care and Queen Creek Medical Center were both hit with ransomware attacks over the past year. Read full ZD Net article.

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.

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. Read full Health Tech article.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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. Read full Health IT Security article.

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...

Health IT Security, September 3, 2021 Nearly nine months after the Accellion data breach, Beaumont Health in Michigan joined a list of over 11 healthcare organizations impacted by the cyberattack. Read full Health IT Security article.

CPO Magazine, September 2, 2021 In most circumstances, insuring your organization against potential threats is a solid idea. Within this frame of logic, particularly for a healthcare organization, a sector where 34% of all organizations were hit by ransomware last...

CSO, August 31, 2021 Ransomware gangs are adopting all the core elements of legitimate businesses—including defined staff roles, marketing plans, partner ecosystems, and even venture capital investments—and some hallmarks of more traditional criminal enterprises. Read...

Health IT Security, August 30, 2021 CISA released a fact sheet on protecting PII from ransomware attacks in light of recent high-profile cyberattacks that put personal data in jeopardy. Read full Health IT Security article.

Health IT Security, August 30, 2021 Cyber criminals are shifting their healthcare data breach targets away from hospitals and onto outpatient facilities and business associates, a new report shows. Read full Health IT Security article.

MSN, August 27, 2021 FBI releases alert about Hive ransomware after attack on hospital system in Ohio and West Virginia. Read full MSN article.

Health IT Security, August 27, 2021 McAfee researchers discovered significant gaps in medical device security that may allow hackers to administer deadly doses of medications through an infusion pump. Read full Health IT Security article.

Health IT Security, August 26, 2021 After multiple ransomware attacks went unreported, California’s attorney general issued a bulletin to providers reminding them to report healthcare data breaches. Read full Health IT Security article.

Health IT Security, August 26, 2021 A healthcare ransomware attack in Indiana resulted in EHR downtime and potential exposure of patient and employee PII after bad actors released data online. Read full Health IT Security article.

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. Read full Health IT Security article.

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...

Open Access Government, August 23, 2021 David Higgins, EMEA Technical Director, CyberArk, explores three reasons why healthcare organisations are extra vulnerable to ransomware. Read full Open Access Governmet article.

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...

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...

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...

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. Read full Silicon Angle article.

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...

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. Read full HIT Consultant article.

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. Read full Health IT article.

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...

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...

SC MEDIA, August 12, 2021 Despite the health care sector remaining a prime target for threat actors, many provider organizations don’t see cybersecurity investment as a priority and few name cyber as a high priority spend, according to a new report from CyberMDX in...

SC MEDIA, August 11, 2021 A recent Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) alert warns that threat actors are targeting the health care sector with phishing attacks that leverage legitimate right-to-left override (RTLO) Unicode to appear benign and...

HEALTH IT SECURITY, August 11, 2021 A Georgia healthcare system sustained a cyberattack, with hackers targeting patients’ and staff members’ PHI. Read full Health IT Security article.

INFO SECURITY MAGAZINE, August 11, 2021 A health system in Georgia has begun notifying patients of a six-month-long data breach that culminated in a ransomware attack. Read full Info Security Magazine article.

MSN, August 11, 2021 Leaders with St. Joseph’s/Candler said some employee and patient information may have been taken during June’s ransomware attack. Read full MSN article.

MSN, August 11, 2021 Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos group, and a former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency worker, has started a ransomware payments tracking site called Ransomewhere. Read full SC Media article.

FIERCE HEALTHCARE, August 10, 2021 Cyberattacks have ramped up in recent years, and there’s now a strong chance that any given health organization will, at some point, be hit with ransomware. Read full Fierce Healthcare article.

MSN , August 10, 2021 Eskenazi Health remains on diversion for patients coming by ambulance nearly a week after an attempted ransomware attack that led the hospital to shut down its entire computer network. Read full MSN article.

SC Media, August 6, 2021 Cybercriminals have not taken a vacation during the pandemic and have continued to modify their tactics to great success. Recent security incidents reflect the nature of the threat landscape and serve as a reminder that even entities with...

Yahoo! News, August 5, 2021 Hackers are going after U.S. hospitals with a fresh wave of cyberattacks this week just as coronavirus cases surge around the country. Eskenazi Health, a health-care service provider that operates a 315-bed hospital, inpatient facilities,...

SC Media, August 5, 2021 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced Thursday the formation of a new committee that will bring government and industry together to work on cybersecurity issues. The move continues the Biden administration's more...

SC Media, August 5, 2021 Cyberattacks on two U.S. health systems have forced the providers into electronic health record (EHR) downtime procedures: Sanford Health in South Dakota and Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, according to multiple local news outlets and...