Security Boulevard

APRIL 9, 2021

Prestigious healthcare systems continue to be at risk for the next devastating ransomware attack or data breach. The Impact of COVID-19 in Healthcare Security Continues. The last year of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a striking proliferation of cyber-criminal activity against the healthcare industry.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Online shopping scams An online shopping scam usually involves a fake online store or app, which appears legitimate and is promoted on social media or other authentic websites. Financial fraud With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), financial fraud tactics are growing more sophisticated, and sadly, they often target older people.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The attacks have gone on since at least October 2023, Iran-linked threat actors attempted to hack user accounts and obtain access to organizations in the healthcare and public health (HPH), government, information technology, engineering, and energy sectors. Intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from the U.S.,

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The biggest target is the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector, according to the advisory. "As Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with information about "Daixin Team," a cybercrime group actively targeting U.S. businesses with ransomware and data extortion operations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected. Login credentials associated with external authentication systems (i.e. A list of the user IDs permitted to use the firewall for SSL VPN and accounts that were permitted to use a clientless VPN connection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The most popular options include virtual private network (VPN) or remote desktop protocol (RDP). VPN works by initiating a secure connection over the internet through data encryption. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

This means that the DNG now enables users to access on-premises shares, without requiring a full VPN connection. It also eliminates the need for full VPN and avoids exposing those applications directly to the internet. Then it verifies user identity with advanced multi-factor authentication (MFA). What is Duo Network Gateway?

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Secure authentication isn’t fun, but you put up with it as part of your day because you know it’s keeping you safer. That’s why we’re so excited to bring to market Duo Passport — a new capability that drives secure, seamless access to all the permitted applications with just one interactive authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Qilin ransomware group has been active since at least 2022 but gained attention in June 2024 for attacking Synnovis , a UK governmental service provider for healthcare. The attackers breached the organization via compromised credentials for a VPN portal that lacked multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

ExtremeControl is popular with education, entertainment, hospitality and healthcare customers and can scale to 200,000 endpoints. This solution is popular among education and healthcare in part due to its focus on maintaining regulatory compliance. CyberGatekeeper also offers a VPN and intrusion detection system.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. The attacks aimed at government entities and managed service providers (MSPs) that were active in many industries, including aviation, healthcare, finance, insurance, energy, and gambling.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

Early this year the group announced that it will no longer attack organizations in the healthcare industry, companies involved in the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, and funeral service organizations. Require multi-factor authentication for remote access to OT and IT networks.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 5, 2022

In an ideal world, and increasingly in reality, any system or application that contains critical information such as banking information, healthcare, or corporate enterprise intellectual property are protected with multifactor.? Given the option – use a strong password and multifactor authentication.? . ? .

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. Require two-factor authentication (2FA) on remote desktops and VPNs.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Supporting OIDC allows us to protect more of the applications that our customers are adopting as we all move towards a mobile-first world and integrate stronger and modern authentication methods (e.g. protocol adding Authentication to what has historically been used for Authorization purposes. biometrics). What is OIDC?

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

flaw, which is caused by improper authentication. Further, the Redis server operates on a remote host but is not protected by password authentication. If remote access is required to the vulnerable Vue PACS, secure methods should be required to do so, such as a virtual private network (VPN).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. The Daixin Team group gains initial access to victims through virtual private network (VPN) servers. The threat actors obtained the VPN credentials through phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

“The impact of these updates is far-reaching, considering that Hive is a RaaS payload that Microsoft has observed in attacks against organizations in the healthcare and software industries by large ransomware affiliates like DEV-0237.” .” reads the post published by Microsoft. key files. ” continues Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2024

Its client roster includes more than 7,000 organizations spanning healthcare, finance, retail, technology, and more. The access was possible because the demo account was not behind Okta or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), unlike Snowflake's corporate and production systems. It did not contain sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Request for access to corporate VPN. I sell VPN accounts of USA companies, revenue is 1kkk$. Access type: VPN. Access type: VPN. Sale] VPN-RDP accounts for network access. Access type: VPN-RDP. Company is a private healthcare organization with its own laboratory. Access type: VPN-RDP.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2020

Here's what NCSC says about the group: "The group uses a variety of tools and techniques to predominantly target governmental, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy targets for intelligence gain. The executable exploits a vulnerability identified within Sangfor SSL VPN devices. APT29 also goes by "the Dukes" or "Cozy Bear."

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The authorities reported that from June 2021 through at least November 2022, threat actors employed the Hive ransomware in attacks aimed at a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including Government Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology, and especially Healthcare and Public Health (HPH).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In addition to patching vulnerabilities from third-party software , AppSec teams might also work with their DevOps teams to add multifactor authentication (MFA) or similar identity authentication features into applications they build in-house. Also read: Hackers Leak 87,000 Fortinet VPN Passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2022

A fintech, healthcare, or government organization will likely need to be more careful about open source components than those in other verticals that may want to seek a different balance between security and speed of deployment. . Because that particular open source component has a known vulnerability,'” Shah said.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Officially classified as cyber terrorism, we’ve now seen large-scale ransomware attacks on everything from government, to healthcare, to supply chains, education and financial institutions. The good news is that Gartner reports 90% of ransomware is preventable. The modern workforce is more mobile than ever before.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 24, 2019

In this Spotlight edition of The Security Ledger Podcast, sponsored by CyberArk*, we interview serial entrepreneur Gil Rapaport about his latest creation: Alero, a new remote authentication tool that promises to fix remote vendor access by doing away with passwords.and agents.and VPNs. Alero: Beyond Passwords, Beyond VPN.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As attempted attacks continue, businesses in high-risk verticals, like government, healthcare, and finance, should be particularly vigilant. October 1, 2024 CISA Releases Notice About Optigo Switch Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: Improper filename control and weak authentication. Connect to OneView via secure VPN.”

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Adding to that complexity, we still have many organizations using the old method of a VPN to check a user’s identity before providing access to all applications regardless of who the user is, what device they are using and what permissions they SHOULD have based on their role. Go VPN-less!

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Specializing in seed and Series A opportunities, the San Francisco-based firm has an extensive consumer, enterprise, and healthcare investments portfolio. Insight’s portfolio goes beyond cybersecurity, serving IT verticals in data, fintech, healthcare, and logistics. Insight Investments. New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

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