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The healthcare industry experienced devastating effects from DNS attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic, more so than other industries, a report from EfficientIP and IDC shows. The report shows that healthcare is more vulnerable than other industries to a variety of consequences from attacks: healthcare is the most likely industry to suffer application downtime, with 53% of healthcare companies in the survey reporting that.
Avanan announced the release of a report which analyzes today's threat landscape, phishing vectors, and industry-based attacks, exposing healthcare and manufacturing as two of the top targets for cyberattacks in the first half of the year. IT saw over 9,000 phishing emails in a one month span, out of an average of 376,914 total emails; healthcare saw over 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 451,792 total emails; and manufacturing saw just under 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 331,184 total emails.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday published an advisory to inform organizations about a total of 15 vulnerabilities affecting Philips Vue healthcare products. The flaws, many of which exist in third-party components, affect several Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform Portal products, including MyVue, Vue Speech and Vue Motion, CISA said.
The transition to EHRs has made ransomware and data-theft attacks far more costly and damaging for healthcare institutions. Researchers have found that Ryuk ransomware is increasingly targeting RDPs, particularly in the healthcare sector.
Brazilian medical diagnostic company Grupo Fleury has suffered a ransomware attack that has disrupted business operations after the company took its systems offline. Grupo Fleury is the largest medical diagnostics company in Brazil, with over 200 service centers and more than 10,000 employees.
Brazilian medical diagnostic company Grupo Fleury has suffered a ransomware attack that has disrupted business operations after the company took its systems offline. Grupo Fleury is the largest medical diagnostics company in Brazil, with over 200 service centers and more than 10,000 employees.
Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory CISO at ThycoticCentrify, discusses best practices for securing healthcare data against the modern threat landscape. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of targeted attacks on healthcare provider network servers, email systems and devices has rapidly increased as attackers look to take advantage of the overwhelmed healthcare sector struggling to cope with accelerating demand.
The thought of ransomware gripping the corporate systems we manage is enough to give any of us sleepless nights. The thought of a ransomware attack crippling the healthcare infrastructure all of us rely on is terrifying.
Victim losses from healthcare related eCrime in the U.S. rose by 2,473 percent during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation and world, CrowdStrike reveals. Healthcare eCrime describes a scheme attempting to defraud private or government healthcare programs, affecting healthcare providers, companies, or individuals.