Medtronic suffered a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems. The incident highlights growing cybersecurity risks in the medtech sector, with cybergangs increasingly using phishing and other human-engineering tactics to gain access to data.
Let’s not add salt to the wound of funding cuts and personnel changes by inadvertently inviting even more ransomware - here's a closer look at health’s endpoint holes, how federal cuts could ultimately help ransomware hackers, and what ecosystem defenders can do to step up and fight back.
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Cybersecurity experts are recommending some changes to improve the healthcare industry’s defense posture — such as the introduction of government-enforced minimum cybersecurity standards for providers and greater collaboration between healthcare organizations.
On Wednesday, Ascension noticed that a hacker had infiltrated its systems. As the health system works with Mandiant to investigate the incident, clinical services remain disrupted at Ascension facilities across several states.
HHS issued an alert warning providers about Rhysida, a ransomware gang that recently begun launching attacks on healthcare organizations. The group deploys its ransomware primarily through phishing attacks or the exploitation of legitimate cybersecurity tools.
Federal officials are sounding the alarm on two ransomware groups that are actively targeting the healthcare sector: Cl0p and LockBit. In recent months, the groups have been exploiting three known software vulnerabilities in cyberattacks they have waged against healthcare businesses across the country.
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently issued a report letting healthcare organizations know that they are still being heavily targeted by KillNet, a Russian group of cybercriminals. The number of daily attacks KillNet waged against healthcare organizations using Microsoft Azure increased significantly between November 18 and February 17 — from 10-20 attacks per day in November to 40-60 attacks per day in February.
Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for a string of recent cyberattacks that took more than a dozen hospital websites offline across the U.S. — including the websites for Cedars-Sinai, Michigan Medicine, and UPMC. The group has been active for at least a year and is known to target countries that support and/or send resources to Ukraine.
In 2022, the healthcare sector is on track to meet or exceed the more than 50.4 million patient records that were breached last year. As we look ahead to 2023, increasing cybersecurity budgets will be a necessity for healthcare organizations, despite their tight financial circumstances.
Cybercriminals are weaponizing the same tools that healthcare providers use to operate and maintain secure IT systems, HHS warned in a recent report. Providers can protect themselves by having a firm grasp of what their IT environment looks like, as this may help them spot any suspicious security tool commands.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
The model can be used to outline the steps involved in a ransomware attack and thereby enabling healthcare providers to block the attackers themselves at each step.
Cybersecurity will continue to be a major issue for providers in the year ahead. According to CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra, the most common factors putting providers at risk are their employees and being unable to track data flow.
In 2014, Martin Gottesfeld, who identified himself as a member of Anonymous, carried out cyberattacks on Boston Children's Hospital and Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.
New research from Symantec found 39 percent of Orangeworm's victims operate in the healthcare field. Its other targeted sectors like manufacturing have ties to the medical industry as well.
Instead of examining cybersecurity from the perspective of IT experts, the Nuix "Black Report" survey got inside the minds of hackers.