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A 31-year old Canadian national has been charged in connection to ransomware attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada, a federal indictment unsealed today shows. According to the indictment, between April 2018 through May 2018, Philbert targeted at least ten computers of an organization in the healthcare sector from the District of Alaska.
Last month saw an alarming rise in cyberattacks 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 privacy.
Armis released data showing the increased security risk faced by healthcare organizations and patients as an increase in connected devices creates an expanded attack surface, putting the patient journey at risk. The pitfalls of an expanded attack surface for healthcare organizations Increased cyber risk: 85% of IT professional respondents agreed they have seen increased cyber risk over the past 12 months.
Research released Wednesday by security provider Armis looks at the ways that hospitals and patients are vulnerable to cyber threats. A full 85% of the healthcare respondents said they've seen an increase in cyber risk over the past 12 months.
Researchers today published details about a suite of 13 vulnerabilities in the Nucleus real-time operating system from Siemens that powers devices used in the medical, industrial, automotive, and aerospace sectors. Dubbed NUCLEUS:13, the set of flaws affect the Nucleus TCP/IP stack and could be leveraged to obtain remote code execution on vulnerable devices, create a denial-of-service condition, or obtain info that could lead to damaging consequences.
Why is the healthcare industry particularly at risk for a cyberattack? What are the unique challenges to cybersecurity in healthcare, and how can healthcare organizations address these? Healthcare organizations have particularly been a target of ransomware attacks, which have prompted several special warnings from the FBI and others to help protect healthcare organizations, including hospitals, from attacks.
Why is the healthcare industry particularly at risk for a cyberattack? What are the unique challenges to cybersecurity in healthcare, and how can healthcare organizations address these? Healthcare organizations have particularly been a target of ransomware attacks, which have prompted several special warnings from the FBI and others to help protect healthcare organizations, including hospitals, from attacks.
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks warned over the weekend of an ongoing hacking campaign that has already resulted in the compromise of at least nine organizations worldwide from critical sectors, including defense, healthcare, energy, technology, and education. To breach the orgs networks, the threat actors behind this cyberespionage campaign exploited a critical vulnerability in Zoho's enterprise password management solution known as ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus which allows remotely executing code on unpatched systems without authentication.
The Philips Tasy EMR, used by hundreds of hospitals as a medical record solution and healthcare management system, is vulnerable to two critical SQL injection flaws. These are SQL injection flaws via two parameters, relying on the improper escaping of special characters in SQL commands.
The 5G healthcare market is projected to reach $3.667 million by 2026, at a CAGR of 76.3% between 2021 and 2026, according to MarketsandMarkets. This massive network will include billions of low-bitrates and low-energy connected health monitoring devices, remote sensors, and clinical wearables, with 5G providing a backbone infrastructure for IoT. The 5G in healthcare market is valued at an estimated $215 million in 2021 and is projected to reach $3.667 million by 2026, at a CAGR of 76.3% during the forecast period.