Security News

US medical org pays $50M+ to settle case after crims raided data and threatened to swat cancer patients
2025-05-30 17:35

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a...

Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine
2025-05-28 12:24

The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a "strict-regime" (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked...

Medical device maker Masimo warns of cyberattack, manufacturing delays
2025-05-07 13:39

Medical device company Masimo Corporation warns that a cyberattack is impacting production operations and causing delays in fulfilling customers' orders. [...]

CISOs, are your medical devices secure? Attackers are watching closely
2025-03-13 06:00

The adoption of connected medical devices, collectively called the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), has transformed patient care. However, this technological advancement has also introduced...

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86k+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months
2025-03-11 17:00

Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database…what could possibly go wrong Exclusive More than 86,000 records containing nurses' medical records, facial images, ID documents and more...

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers
2025-02-25 13:15

Sly like a PRC cyberattack A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping...

Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
2025-02-19 13:01

15GB of sensitive files traced back to former software biz Typically shoppers can expect to find tie-dye t-shirts, broken lamps and old disco records at flea markets, now it seems storage drives...

Story About Medical Device Security
2025-02-18 12:06

Ben Rothke relates a story about me working with a medical device firm back when I was with BT. I don’t remember the story at all, or who the company was. But it sounds about right.

Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP
2025-02-03 02:02

PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more Infosec in brief The United States Food and Drug Administration has told medical...

Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360,000 people
2025-01-08 17:28

​Medusind, a leading billing provider for healthcare organizations, is notifying hundreds of thousands of individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal and health information more than...