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Recent cyberattacks targeting the nation's healthcare system have demonstrated the vulnerability of hospitals and payment systems. In January of 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services launched a healthcare cybersecurity gateway website to simplify access to the Department's healthcare-specific cybersecurity information and resources and published voluntary Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity Performance Goals designed to help healthcare institutions plan and prioritize high-impact cybersecurity practices.
An analysis of a nascent ransomware strain called RansomHub has revealed it to be an updated and rebranded version of Knight ransomware, itself an evolution of another ransomware known as Cyclops....
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a security flaw impacting NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,...
Security researchers have disclosed almost a dozen security flaws impacting the GE HealthCare Vivid Ultrasound product family that could be exploited by malicious actors to tamper with patient...
To understand the scope of exposure and the associated risk facing cyber-physical systems environments, Claroty's research group Team82 analyzed data from over 20 million operational technology, connected medical devices, IoT, and IT assets in CPS environments. Researchers defined "High risk" as having a high likelihood and high impact of being exploited, based on a combination of risk factors such as end-of-life state, communication with insecure protocols, known vulnerabilities, weak or default passwords, PII or PHI data, consequence of failure, and several others.
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The report estimates that one fifth of all sensitive data belonging to healthcare organizations is impacted in each ransomware attack. A typical healthcare organization has more than 42 million sensitive data records - 50% more sensitive data than the global average of 28 million.
Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, has taken some of its systems offline to investigate what it describes as a "Cyber security event." As a major U.S. nonprofit health system, Ascension operates 140 hospitals and 40 senior care facilities across 19 states and the District of Columbia.