CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022 report is against what is being urged by the law enforcement agencies such as CISA and the FBI.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On Wednesday February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare—a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group—experienced serious system outages due to a cyberattack. In a Form 8-K filing the company said it: “identified a suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor had gained access to some of the Change Healthcare information technology systems.”

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2021

You would think that ExaGrid, a backup appliance and anti-ransomware service might know how to avoid ransomware, but it was hit. . The FBI announced last month that Conti ransomware had been used against the Irish healthcare system and at least sixteen U.S. million after it was hit with Conti ransomware. .

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

Ransomware attacks are targeting healthcare organizations more frequently. Why healthcare needs better cybersecurity Healthcare organizations are especially vulnerable to data breaches because of how much data they hold. On average, the cost of a healthcare data breach globally is $10.93

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

“Others have gotten the message about the need for good backups, and probably don’t need to pay. A ridiculous number of businesses — particularly healthcare providers — get hit with ransomware because they leave RDP open to the Internet and secured with easy-to-guess passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

REvil ransomware operators claimed to have breached another healthcare organization, the victim is Valley Health Systems. Healthcare organizations are a privileged target of hackers due to the sensitive data they manage. The organization operates over 40 healthcare facilities with over 400 employees working across all their centers. .

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Healthcare facilities are under an increased threat of cyberattack, according to the FBI. hospitals and healthcare providers.”. The advisory urged healthcare facilities to follow best practices to prevent malware infections, including: Regularly applying security patches to computers and networking equipment.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The government’s indictment against Ptitsyn should dispel any notion that ransomware gangs only target the largest, richest, most robust corporations on the planet, as one Phobos affiliate allegedly extorted a Maryland-based healthcare provider out of just $2,300—possibly the lowest payment ever recorded. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

The Change Healthcare ransomware attack has taken a third cruel twist. Change Healthcare is one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the USA, responsible for the flow of payments between payers, providers, and patients. ” The announcement follows a series of events that require some unpacking. .”

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2022

Do you know, for example, where all of your backups are – even the ones made years ago? If the data in any such backups contains information that remains sensitive, the backups need to be located, decrypted, re-encrypted, and the originals properly destroyed (or properly wiped and overwritten).

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But when a cyberattack involves a hospital or healthcare provider, things can change pretty quickly. The healthcare system added that it would be contacting patients who had appointments affected by the security breach, apologizing for any inconvenience or delays that the breach may have caused.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Medusa Locker is a type of ransomware that operates under a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, primarily targeting large enterprises in sectors such as healthcare and education. And since the backups that were made by a third party turned out to be incomplete, they were also unable to inform affected patients.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2024

Following the February 21 attack on Change Healthcare , scores of people in the US have been living with the brutal, real-world effects of ransomware. They are always damaging and they always cause pain, but when they hit the healthcare system, the consequences—particularly the risk to life—are often more immediately obvious and shocking.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2025

Organizationsparticularly those in critical sectors such as energy, healthcare, and financerely on CISA for guidance on emerging threats and best practices. In other words, dependence on government services for cybersecurity should always have a backup plan. However, the advice from Michael Hayden should be heeded.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In an updated #StopRansomware security advisory , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has warned the healthcare industry about the danger of the ALPHV ransomware group, also known as Blackcat. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning of an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting government entities, educational institutions, private companies and the healthcare sector in the US and the UK.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

The Change Healthcare ransomware attack has taken a third cruel twist. Change Healthcare is one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the USA, responsible for the flow of payments between payers, providers, and patients. ” The announcement follows a series of events that require some unpacking. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Bitdefender observed an attack on a healthcare organization, where threat actors encrypted Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server devices, including backups. However, the investigation revealed positive news: it’s possible to develop a decryptor and configure BitLocker to mitigate such attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Specifically, Trickbot has a backup control mechanism: A domain name registered on EmerDNS, a decentralized domain name system. The latest Ryuk victim is Universal Health Services (UHS), a Fortune 500 hospital and healthcare services provider that operates more than 400 facilities in the U.S. On Sunday, Sept.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

State-sponsored North Korean threat actors have been targeting the US Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector for the past year using the Maui ransomware, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury. – CSA Alert (AA22-187A).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, fell victim to a Conti ransomware attack, forcing the organization to shut down more than 80,000 affected endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. Prepare for hard battles ahead. Implement network segmentation.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

million in previous cybersecurity attacks against the healthcare sector. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) The BlackCat group has demanded ransoms as high as $1.5 Write an incident response plan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

The Professional Finance Company, PFC, suffered a ransomware attack on February 26 and on July 1 confirmed that over 650 healthcare providers were affected by the breach. In the last 18 months, companies have been misled into believing that investing in backup and recovery solutions is the answer to their ransomware woes. More than 1.9

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

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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Javvad Malik

JULY 5, 2024

The more I delve into the details of the Synnovis breach, the more I realise that this incident is not an isolated case, but rather a symptom of a larger problem plaguing the healthcare industry. Many healthcare organisations operate on tight budgets, with limited resources to invest in cybersecurity measures.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online. On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. More than a week later on Jan.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) are warning of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide in multiple industries, including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Kuwait Health Ministry is recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted systems at multiple hospitals and disabled the Sahel healthcare app. The cyber attack also impacted the Ministry of Health website, which is still offline, and Kuwait’s Sahel healthcare app. ” reported the website Kuna.net.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

And, of course, the consequences of not fully locating and re-protecting old data can be catastrophic; a single long-forgotten laptop, ZIP disk, CD, or backup tape – or even an old floppy disk! could potentially lead to terrible financial losses, legal headaches, and ruined reputations.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Healthcare: Insider threats and error-related breaches dominate. The only method of recovery will be backups, however data shows that backups do not typically survive these breaches. The most effective component of breach recovery plans is immutable backups, which are essential for fast recovery from breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

One of the biggest problems in the cybercrime section of the report relates to backups. Specifically: The lack of backups when dealing with hacking incidents. Backups in Brazil: An uphill struggle. Backups are an essential backstop that can help against several forms of attack, as well as mistakes and mishaps.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2025

UAT-5918 mainly targets Taiwan’s telecom, healthcare, IT, and critical infrastructure sectors. They stage and exfiltrate data, including confidential files and database backups, using SQLCMD. The researchers noticed that tools are usually downloaded as archives and extracted before execution.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Early this month, Evgueni Erchov, Director of IR & Cyber Threat Intelligence at Arete Incident Response, told ZDNet that multiple ransomware gangs are cold-calling victims if they don’t pay the ransom and attempt to restore from backups. Patch operating systems, software, firmware, and endpoints.

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