Last week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a report letting healthcare organizations know that they are still being heavily targeted by KillNet, a Russian group of cybercriminals.
The hacker gang operates mainly…
April 6, 2023 Headlines No Comments VA’s new EHR ‘not ready’ for next go-live, extending pause in rollouts
The VA postpones its Oracle Cerner go-live at VA Saginaw Health Care that was planned for June,…
By Sarai Rodriguez March 15, 2023 – Healthcare providers face a heightened risk of data exfiltration, according to a recent HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) brief that delves into the…
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Andrew Brooks, M.D., Co-Founder and CMO at TigerConnectThe world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes –…
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The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies.
In the current digital environment, businesses are constantly bombarded with data. That data comes in all shapes…
March 7, 2023 Headlines No Comments Gang leaks Lehigh Valley Health Network cancer patient photos as part of data hack
BlackCat hackers post pictures of Lehigh Valley Health Network (PA) cancer patients on…
What You Should Know:– Critical Insight, the Cybersecurity-as-a-Service provider specializing in helping critical organizations Prepare, Detect, and Respond in today’s threat environment releases its H2 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report, which analyzes breach data…
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The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva.
For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes…
Government agencies from the United States and the Republic of Korea are highlighting new ransomware tactics they’ve seen, which they say are used to conceal the affiliation of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea hackers working to stage attacks against U.S. and South Korean healthcare organizations and critical infrastructure.WHY IT MATTERS
The new cybersecurity advisory, Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure fund DPRK malicious cyber activities, details both North Korea’s historically and recently observed tactics, techniques and procedures and indicators of compromise.
The additional observed TTPs “span phases from acquiring and purchasing infrastructure to concealing DPRK affiliation,” according to the United States National Security Agency, the Federal…
The group, also known as ALPHV and suspected to be a successor to BlackMatter, has demanded ransoms as high as $1.5M with affiliates keeping 80-90%, according to the Office of Information Security at U.S. Health and Human Services and the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center.WHY IT MATTERS
The Russian ransomware group allegedly attacked the EHR vendor NextGen on January 17, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
“The company says it doesn’t look like the hackers obtained any client data or patient data,” according to the Post.
Healthcare IT News reached out to NextGen for comment and will update this story if it responds.
Claiming responsibility, BlackCat “put…
