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Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

Security Affairs

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. It was designed to download payloads intended to exfiltrate XG Firewall-resident data.

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

eSecurity Planet

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Healthcare Cyberattacks Common – And Costly. The financial costs of healthcare cyberattacks are high, the report noted, costing an average of $4.4

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020.

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Cost-Effective Steps the Healthcare Industry Can Take To Mitigate Damaging Ransomware Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cyberattacks are rapidly overwhelming the healthcare sector. Both large and small healthcare providers continue to be a tantalizing target for repeated ransomware attacks due to limited security budgets that lead to an overall weakened cyber defense system. By Tom Neclerio , Vice President of Professional Services at SilverSky.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 493 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

United States government agencies recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing information on how North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are actively using Maui ransomware to attack healthcare organizations. What is North Korea up to? Mitigations for Maui ransomware.

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Why SMBs are Under Attack by Ransomware

Webroot

Ransomware attacks generate big headlines when the targets are government entities, universities and healthcare organizations. This includes essential security measures like firewalls, endpoint protection and DNS protection. But there’s one increasingly frequent target of ransomware attacks that tends to slip under the radar.