Increasing costs and healthcare cybersecurity worries have sparked calls for new laws. The bipartisan “Strengthening Cybersecurity in Health Care Act” by four senators would require the HHS to perform routine evaluations of its systems and deliver biannual reports on practices and progress.
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.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Hospitals and outpatient treatment centers in at least three states are struggling to get their systems back online following a ransomware attack waged last week against parent company Prospect Medical Holdings. Some of these facilities have partially or completely halted patient care.
HC3 recently warned healthcare providers about a "relatively unknown" ransomware gang named TimisoaraHackerTeam. The group leverages legitimate software tools like Microsoft’s BitLocker and Jetico’s BestCrypt to deliver its malware.
A group of federal agencies recently released an updated set of guidelines to help healthcare organizations protect themselves from ransomware attacks and the data breaches that often follow. The guidance lays out best practices to prevent the six major ways that bad actors gain access to providers’ systems, which include compromised credentials and phishing.
Ransomware group BlackCat has been targeting healthcare organizations in recent months, and it just went after NextGen Healthcare. Healthcare organizations would be wise to enhance their cybersecurity strategy in defense against BlackCat, as it is “one of the more adaptable ransomware operations in the world,” according to HHS.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
CommonSpirit Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over a ransomware attack it suffered last fall that exposed 623,774 patients' personal data. However, hospitals' data breach lawsuits usually never make it court, a legal expert said.
The Santa Clara, California company uses both machine learning and an advanced method of examining and managing network traffic, to secure connected devices and bring order in a world of IT chaos.
Prevention and cyber resiliency—an organization’s ability to bounce back and operate in the event of a cyber attack—have become all the more important as cyber threats have increased during the pandemic.
While you may rid yourself of one attacker by meeting their demands, you send a sign to threat actors around the world that you are willing to negotiate.
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Last week, Chicago-based Allscripts was affected by a ransomware attack that took its cloud-based EHR and some e-prescribing capabilities offline. The vendor said to expect continued outages Monday.
A new analysis from Rockville, Maryland-based Cryptonite found that ransomware is on the rise. While there were 19 healthcare ransomware events reported to HHS/OCR in 2016, there were 36 in 2017.
The latest Breach Barometer from Protenus and DataBreaches.net details that the single largest incident in November was a ransomware attack on the Hackensack Sleep and Pulmonary Center in New Jersey. It impacted 16,747 patient records.