News in the Healthcare category

Rhysida ransomware behind recent attacks on healthcare

The Rhysida ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation that emerged in May 2023 is gradually leaving the period of obscurity behind, as a recent wave of attacks on healthcare organizations has forced government agencies and cybersecurity companies to pay closer attention to its operations.
- Bill Toulas
- August 09, 2023
- 02:31 PM
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Threat actors abuse Google AMP for evasive phishing attacks

Security researchers are warning of increased phishing activity that abuses Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to bypass email security measures and get to inboxes of enterprise employees.
- Bill Toulas
- August 01, 2023
- 01:43 PM
- 0
HCA confirms breach after hacker steals data of 11 million patients

HCA Healthcare disclosed a data breach impacting an estimated 11 million patients who received care at one of its hospitals and clinics after a threat actor posted samples of stolen data on a hacking forum.
- Bill Toulas
- July 11, 2023
- 10:59 AM
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ransomware attack hits 2.5 million people

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) has disclosed that a ransomware attack it suffered in April 2023 impacted 2,550,922 people, with the threat actors also stealing their sensitive data from compromised systems.
- Bill Toulas
- June 01, 2023
- 01:02 PM
- 3
Ransomware gang steals data of 5.8 million PharMerica patients

Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.
- Bill Toulas
- May 15, 2023
- 02:10 PM
- 0
North Korean hackers breached major hospital in Seoul to steal data

The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) warned that North Korean hackers had breached the network of one of the country's largest hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), to steal sensitive medical information and personal details.
- Bill Toulas
- May 10, 2023
- 05:16 PM
- 0
CISA warns of critical bugs in Illumina DNA sequencing systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FDA have issued an urgent alert about two vulnerabilities that impact Illumina's Universal Copy Service (UCS), used for DNA sequencing in medical facilities and labs worldwide.
- Bill Toulas
- April 28, 2023
- 10:40 AM
- 0
Mental health provider Cerebral alerts 3.1M people of data breach

Healthcare platform Cerebral is sending data breach notices to 3.18 million people who have interacted with its websites, applications, and telehealth services.
- Bill Toulas
- March 10, 2023
- 10:43 AM
- 0
California medical group data breach impacts 3.3 million patients

Multiple medical groups in the Heritage Provider Network in California have suffered a ransomware attack, exposing sensitive patient information to cybercriminals.
- Bill Toulas
- February 10, 2023
- 12:36 PM
- 0
Gootkit malware abuses VLC to infect healthcare orgs with Cobalt Strike

The Gootkit loader malware operators are running a new SEO poisoning campaign that abuses VLC Media Player to infect Australian healthcare entities with Cobalt Strike beacons.
- Bill Toulas
- January 11, 2023
- 12:24 PM
- 5
Ransomware attack at Louisiana hospital impacts 270,000 patients

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) is sending out notices of a data breach affecting almost 270,000 people who have received care at one of its medical centers.
- Bill Toulas
- December 28, 2022
- 08:54 AM
- 0
Keralty ransomware attack impacts Colombia's health care system

The Keralty multinational healthcare organization suffered a RansomHouse ransomware attack on Sunday, disrupting the websites and operations of the company and its subsidiaries.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 30, 2022
- 06:25 PM
- 0
Australian Clinical Labs says patient data stolen in ransomware attack

Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) has disclosed a February 2022 data breach that impacted its Medlab Pathology business, exposing the medical records and other sensitive information of 223,000 people.
- Bill Toulas
- October 27, 2022
- 02:05 PM
- 0
Dutch police arrest hacker who breached healthcare software vendor

The Dutch police have arrested a 19-year-old man in western Netherlands, suspected of breaching the systems of a healthcare software vendor in the country, and stealing tens of thousands of documents.
- Bill Toulas
- October 25, 2022
- 01:04 PM
- 1
New York ambulance service discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Empress EMS (Emergency Medical Services), a New York-based emergency response and ambulance service provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information.
- Bill Toulas
- September 17, 2022
- 10:12 AM
- 0
FBI recovers $500,000 healthcare orgs paid to Maui ransomware

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of approximately $500,000 in Bitcoin, paid by American health care providers to the operators of the Maui ransomware strain.
- Bill Toulas
- July 20, 2022
- 10:24 AM
- 0
Extortion gang ransoms Shoprite, largest supermarket chain in Africa

Shoprite Holdings, Africa's largest supermarket chain that operates almost three thousand stores across twelve countries in the continent, has been hit by a ransomware attack.
- Bill Toulas
- June 15, 2022
- 12:28 PM
- 0
Shields Health Care Group data breach affects 2 million patients

Shields Health Care Group (Shields) suffered a data breach that exposed the data of approximately 2,000,000 people in the United States after hackers breached their network and stole data.
- Bill Toulas
- June 07, 2022
- 10:53 AM
- 0
Researchers create exploit for critical Magento bug, Adobe updates advisory

Offensive security researchers have created exploit code for CVE-2022-24086, the critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that Adobe that patched in an out-of-band update last Sunday.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 17, 2022
- 06:24 PM
- 0
HHS: Conti ransomware encrypted 80% of Ireland's HSE IT systems

A threat brief published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday paints a grim picture of how Ireland's health service, the HSE, was overwhelmed and had 80% of its systems encrypted during last year's Conti ransomware attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 04, 2022
- 11:01 AM
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