Fierce Healthcare

JULY 30, 2024

A federal grand jury indicted a North Korean national for allegedly leading ransomware attacks in 2022 against U.S. A federal grand jury indicted a North Korean national for allegedly leading ransomware attacks against U.S. hospitals. |

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ransomware attacks continue to be conducted on healthcare organizations in high numbers but determining the extent to which healthcare organizations are being targeted by ransomware gangs is a challenge. The decision whether or not to encrypt appears to be taken on an attack-by-attack basis.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2021 Internet Crime Report , which reveals there were at least 649 ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure organizations from June 2021 to December 2021. Losses to ransomware are difficult to determine.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 15, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has launched a new pilot program in response to the increase in ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure entities. The program is focused on identifying vulnerabilities in Internet-facing systems that are known to have been exploited by ransomware gangs in previous attacks.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. There may be need for organisational, financial and governance changes to drive this change internally and through the ecosystem. 'Break ” Preparing for cyber-attacks.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 4, 2022

According to the PFC website, the company is one of the nation’s leading debt recovery agencies, and its client list includes many healthcare providers, retailers, financial organizations, and government agencies.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

At this stage, Octapharma has yet to provide any further details about the attack, such as whether ransomware was used to encrypt files, and said further information will be released as the investigation progresses. BlackSuit is a relatively new ransomware operation that was discovered in May 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 16, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has shared threat intelligence information about the Black Basta ransomware group to help network defenders prevent and rapidly detect attacks in progress. The Black Basta group was first identified in April 2022 and is known to conduct ransomware and extortion attacks.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

Ransomware groups target the healthcare sector because a successful attack gives them access to large amounts of sensitive data that can be easily monetized and used as leverage to get a ransom paid. According to Recorded Future, there were 358 ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 46%.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A little while back the government put out a cybersecurity advisory about an “imminent cybercrime threat” that was targeting hospitals using Ryuk ransomware.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

An affiliate of the infamous Netwalker ransomware gang has been sentenced to serve 20 years in jail for his role in ransomware attacks on entities in the United States. A law enforcement investigation into the ransomware attacks conducted by Vachon-Desjardins on U.S. years in jail for a separate drug trafficking case.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A relatively new data extortion and ransomware gang known as Daixin team is actively targeting U.S. Daixin Team first appeared on the radar in June 2022, with the group predominantly conducting data extortion and ransomware attacks on organizations in the health and public health sector (HPH).

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing to examine cybersecurity risks to the healthcare sector, how healthcare providers and the federal government are working to combat those threats, and determine what the federal government needs to do to improve defenses against cyberattacks on the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

While it’s amazing to consider two breaches and ransomware incidents the size of Change Healthcare and Ascension could happen so closely together, it’s very clear that healthcare is a target and we need to massively increase our investment in security to show we’ve learned from these experiences.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Andrew Spier, Vice President of Advanced Cyber Solutions and Commercial Services at Core4ce Recent and high-profile cyber, ransomware and supply chain attacks on Kaiser Permanente, Ascension, and Change Healthcare have shown how the healthcare industry remains the number one target , and that no organization is immune.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health. Cyberattacks are happening almost every day, which has led to the federal government mandating Zero Trust architecture across agencies. Unaware for nearly a year.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 7, 2023

The HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a security alert about a new ransomware group – Rhysida – which is conducting high-impact attacks across multiple industry sectors. The Cobalt Strike attack framework is deployed on compromised systems and used to deliver the ransomware payload.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Over the Labor Day weekend, Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, TX, suffered a ransomware attack. The post Oakbend Medical Center Suffers Ransomware Attack appeared first on HIPAA Journal. The attack started on Thursday, September 1, 2022, and saw files on its network encrypted.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 15, 2023

This joint advisory on LockBit is another example of effective collaboration with our partners to provide timely and actionable resources to help all organizations understand and defend against this ransomware activity,” said CISA Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein. “As

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 11, 2024

A new report by Emsisoft documents an increase in ransomware attacks in the US, with 2,207 US hospitals, schools and governments directly impacted in 2023. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

While we haven’t seen threat actors widely exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild, it is only a matter of time—and the results of an event like an IoMT ransomware attack will be devastating to patients’ safety and wellbeing. Healthcare organizations, however, should not wait until these government mandates come into play.

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Becker's Health IT

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Government officials warn US hospitals of ransomware gangs, such as Clop, LockBit, NoEscape, Lazarus Group, and Akira, targeting patient data. Learn more about

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 6, 2022

Hackers sponsored by North Korea's government have been using the Maui ransomware to target healthcare and public health services providers for the last year, according to the U.S. government.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2022

If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In light of that, many have wondered whether the government has a role to play in healthcare cybersecurity. What role does the government have, if any, when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity? What role does the government have, if any, when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity? Here are his responses.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2022

Irvine, CA-based Smile Brands, a provider of support services for dental offices, has recently provided an update on the number of individuals affected by a ransomware attack that was discovered on April 24, 2021. The post Up to 2,592,494 individuals Affected by Smile Brands Ransomware Attack appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The indictments of multiple members of the TrickBot/Conti Ransomware groups have recently been unsealed and 11 members of these cybercriminal operations have been sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom. government and other U.S. Galochkin was also one of 11 individuals recently sanctioned by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Kel Pults, DHA, MSN, RN-BC, NREMT, Chief Clinical Officer and VP Government Strategy at MediQuant In 2025, healthcare organizations are likely to significantly increase budgets for cybersecurity and infrastructure projects in response to the large breaches of recent years.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. A recent Ponemon Institute report found that ransomware attacks on healthcare providers can lead to increased mortality, and the first ransomware-related fatality in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2021

There’s no sugarcoating it: healthcare has a serious ransomware problem. In fact, the first-ever such attack targeted the industry in 1989 when 20,000 floppy disks infected with ransomware were given to those who attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS Conference. And it’s not a new problem for this sector. An ongoing effort.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 31, 2023

a government services contracting company, has announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer solution in May 2023 and accessed the protected health information (PHI) of between 8 and 11 million individuals. Reston, VA-based Maximus Inc.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2024

MediSecure voluntarily enters administration E-prescription service MediSecure entered into voluntary administration three weeks after it reported a "large-scale" ransomware attack. Days before going into voluntary administration, MediSecure disclosed that it sought government funding to help with its response to the incident.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Growing patient discomfort in sharing health information Beyond health system disruptions such as ransomware that can compromise patient data , cybercriminals are increasingly going after individual patients. Some know they have a "target" on their backs and remain tight-lipped with their healthcare providers, said Liederman.

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Becker's Health IT

MARCH 17, 2023

Rural hospitals need more government funding to deal with the increase in healthcare ransomware attacks and to hire more cybersecurity professionals, IT security leaders told Congress, CyberScoop reported March 16.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries. Phishing attacks, a common vector for ransomware infections, often exploit human vulnerabilities through deceptive emails and other communications.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you’re in the security world, you’ve no doubt seen the warning to hospitals from multiple government agencies about a specific ransomware threat.

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