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A cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm has impacted operations in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, impacting patient care and causing appointments to be rescheduled. Yesterday, the service provider released a statement stating that their IT systems are experiencing an outage due to a cyberattack.
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua hospital, threatening to leak 1 TB of data allegedly stolen during the cyberattack. Yesterday, security researcher MalwareHunterTeam noted that the Ragnar Locker ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack, creating a new page for the hospital on their data leak site.
A hospital with 2,000 employees in the E.U. deployed Cynet protections across its environment. The hospital was in the process of upgrading several expensive imaging systems that were still supported by Windows XP and Windows 7 machines.
The Korean National Police Agency warned that North Korean hackers had breached the network of one of the country's largest hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital, to steal sensitive medical information and personal details. The intrusion techniques observed in the attacks, the IP addresses that have been independently linked to North Korean threat actors, the website registration details, the use of specific language and North Korean vocabulary.
Threats - from cybersecurity exploits to climate change - have major implications for those systems, and with emerging technologies only increasing demand for power and creating new vulnerabilities, maintaining infrastructure is as much about resiliency as keeping the juice flowing, the air conditioners running and the security cameras pointed at the door. Joseph Vijay, CEO of Intelli-Systems, a Melbourne, Australia-based critical systems infrastructure company that supports infrastructure for mines, hospitals, data centers and more, said buyers of critical infrastructure need to focus more on how the infrastructure purchase decisions they make will influence both their bottom line and the environment.
A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a ransomware gang, has sued her healthcare provider for allowing the "Preventable" and "Seriously damaging" leak. LVHN refused to pay the ransom, and earlier this month BlackCat started leaking patient info, including images of at least two breast cancer patients, naked from the waist up.
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona suffered a ransomware attack on Sunday morning, severely disrupting its healthcare services after the institution's virtual machines were targeted by the attacks. The 819-bed hospital is based in Barcelona, Spain, and serves over half a million people seeking medical attention and healthcare services.
A series of distributed-denial-of-service attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure. "Region H the hospitals' websites are down," it read, in Danish.
US and South Korean agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory describing the tactics, techniques and procedures used by North Korean hackers to deploy "State-sponsored" ransomware on hospitals and other organizations that can be considered part of the countries' critical infrastructure. "The authoring agencies assess that an unspecified amount of revenue from these cryptocurrency operations supports DPRK national-level priorities and objectives, including cyber operations targeting the United States and South Korea governments-specific targets include Department of Defense Information Networks and Defense Industrial Base member networks," the advisory points out.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare has taken its IT systems offline and suspended non-emergency procedures following a late Thursday cyberattack. TMH is a private and not-for-profit healthcare system that serves a 21-county region in North Florida and South Georgia through acute care and psychiatric hospitals, multiple specialty care centers, and 38 affiliated physician practices.