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Ransomware gang Trinity joins pile of scumbags targeting healthcare
2024-10-09 13:45

As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about At least one US healthcare provider has been infected by Trinity, an emerging cybercrime gang with eponymous ransomware that uses...

Healthcare's Diagnosis is Critical: The Cure is Cybersecurity Hygiene
2024-09-19 11:00

Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a...

Microsoft Warns of New INC Ransomware Targeting U.S. Healthcare Sector
2024-09-19 10:12

Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the U.S. The tech...

Microsoft: Vanilla Tempest hackers hit healthcare with INC ransomware
2024-09-18 19:02

​Microsoft says a ransomware affiliate it tracks as Vanilla Tempest now targets U.S. healthcare organizations in INC ransomware attacks. [...]

Healthcare giant to pay $65M settlement after crooks stole and leaked nude patient pics
2024-09-12 02:24

Would paying a ransom - or better security - have been cheaper and safer? A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after...

Insecure file-sharing practices in healthcare put patient privacy at risk
2024-07-30 03:00

Healthcare organizations continue to put their business and patients at risk of exposing their most sensitive data, according to Metomic. While publicly shared files that contain highly sensitive data pose the biggest risk for healthcare organizations and underscore the need for data security and DLP tools, many of the access permissions for private files are never updated or removed.

B+ security rating masks healthcare supply chain risks
2024-06-26 03:00

While the healthcare sector gets a "B+" security rating for the first half of 2024, it faces a critical vulnerability: supply chain cyber risk, according to SecurityScorecard. The US healthcare industry's security ratings were better than expected, with an average score of 88.

Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
2024-06-21 21:33

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Change Healthcare lists the medical data stolen in ransomware attack
2024-06-21 16:10

UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time what types of medical and patient data were stolen in the massive Change Healthcare ransomware attack, stating that data breach notifications will be mailed in July. Change Healthcare says that the exposed data may be different for each impacted individual and that patients' complete medical histories have not been seen in the stolen data.

Qilin: We knew our Synnovis attack would cause a healthcare crisis at London hospitals
2024-06-20 10:29

Interview The ransomware gang responsible for the current healthcare crisis at London hospitals says it has no regrets about the attack, which was entirely deliberate, it told The Register in an interview. SOCRadar said last week how Qilin is known for targeting the healthcare and education sectors not because of politics but because of the reliance they have on uptime and the sensitivity of the data they hold.