Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In December, 2022, the Office of Information Security and Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an extensive Analyst Note which identified BlackCat as a "relatively new but highly-capable" ransomware threat to health care providers. million in previous cybersecurity attacks against the healthcare sector.

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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 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.

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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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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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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

During this time, many government agencies and consumer protection organizations come together to help educate consumers on how to keep their personal and financial information secure. Social media privacy Avoid sharing personal information on social media. Document disposal Shred sensitive documents.

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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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Ransomware Backups Firmware Accountability 144

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Therefore, companies that suffer a ransomware attack cannot predict when they will be operational again because they need to eradicate the threat from affected systems and restore any backups. If health information is stolen in the case of SYNLAB Italy, it would pose a serious risk to affected customers’ privacy and security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Black Basta has targeted at least 12 critical infrastructure sectors, including Healthcare and Public Health. The alert provides Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) obtained from law enforcement investigations and reports from third-party security firms. . ” reads the CSA.

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Ransomware Hacking Healthcare Retail 142

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

At the time of this writing, the Loren group has started uploading the stolen data (95%) US Healthcare organizations continue to be a privileged target of ransomware gangs. The group claimed to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Authorities in Romania confirmed that a ransomware attack that targeted the Hipocrate Information System (HIS) has disrupted operations for at least 100 hospitals. Hipocrate Information System (HIS) is a software suite designed to manage the medical and administrative activities of hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

“Healthcare and education organizations also host large volumes of sensitive data, making them more valuable targets. It is not uncommon for schools and hospitals to have legacy systems, poor email filtering, no data backups, or unpatched systems in their environments. ” .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

The result of this oversight may offer attackers a way back into the affected organization, access to financial and healthcare accounts, or — worse yet — key tools for attacking the victim’s various business partners and clients. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. In our Dec.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare).

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Toll has shut down its MyToll portal and is currently removing the threat from its systems before restoring data from backups. This includes cleaning affected servers and systems, and restoring files from backups.” ” reads the statement published by the company. This includes running charter flights from China.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. The group is known to have a role for its affiliated that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BlackMatter ransomware operators announced that they will not target healthcare organizations, critical infrastructure, organizations in the defense industry, and non-profit companies. The experts noticed that BlackMatter operators wipe or reformat backup data stores and appliances instead of encrypting backup systems.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 8, 2023

It said that it had backups of its data and was working to restore its system as soon as possible. If you are an information security professional in the medical field, register for the SecureWorld Healthcare virtual conference on April 12, 2023.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

This is particularly important for high-risk vendors who process sensitive data, intellectual property or other sensitive information. This means due diligence is required to determine the overall suitability of third-parties for their given task and increasingly, whether they can keep information secure.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 14, 2024

When it comes to healthcare data security, HIPAA is the name everyone knows. It’s been around for decades, laying down the law on handling patient information. For the first time, healthcare organizations had to consider how they were protecting patient data seriously. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re not alone.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

” The CPU will address critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Essbase, Graph Server and Client, Secure Backup, Communications Applications, Communications, Construction and Engineering, Enterprise Manager, Financial Services Applications, Fusion Middleware, Insurance Applications, PeopleSoft, Support Tools, and Utilities Applications.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2024

RansomHub claimed responsibility for attacks against multiple organizations, including Change Healthcare, Christie’s , and Frontier Communications. The ransomware exploits cloud storage backups and misconfigured Amazon S3 instances to extort victims.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint CSA to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants observed as recently as February 2024 US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint cyber security advisory (CSA) to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants such as Backmydata , Devos, Eight, Elking, and Faust.

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Ransomware Backups Government Healthcare 140

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The attackers successfully compromised more than a dozen organizations across multiple industries, including technology, energy, healthcare, education, finance and defense. SockDetour serves as a backup fileless Windows backdoor in case the primary one is removed.

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Backups VPN Healthcare Malware 102

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

North Korea-linked APT groups conduct ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund its activities. US CISA published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to provide information about the threat actors to network defenders. and South Korean agencies warn. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our 2021 Webroot BrightCloud ® Threat Report , we found overall infection rates to be rising fastest in the healthcare, non-profit and arts/entertainment/recreation industries. Often operating with limited IT budgets, hospitals, schools and local governments also typically run some of the most complex and difficult to secure networks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Local governments, small and medium-sized businesses, large international corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions are the common targets. In the meanwhile, both businesses and individuals should be proactive in terms of their defenses and maintain data backups to minimize the impact of a potential ransomware attack.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

Even if the schools have a watertight security setup, it may not be the case for external suppliers and other entities interacting with the data in some way. Outbreaks in schools and universities may not be life-threatening in the way attacks on the healthcare sector can be. Store backups externally, away from the main network.

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Ransomware Backups Data breaches Education 97

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. Implement regular data backup procedures . Organize OT assets into logical zones. Regularly test manual controls.

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Ransomware Healthcare Phishing Risk 141

Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The phrase “Left of Boom” was catchy and caught on in other domains, like healthcare and critical infrastructure, or any domain in which preventive and proactive measures should be taken to prevent or limit harmful consequences. In the healthcare sector, the HITRUST Cybersecurity Framework is the sector-specific version of the NIST CSF.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Since we published our first report , the attackers first modified their attack to attempt to use what we previously described as the backup channel. Since mid-2022, threat actors shifted to targeted, manual attacks on high-value targets like government agencies, critical infrastructure, R&D, healthcare, and finance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

. “Analysts have observed evidence of the threat actors attempting to deliver ransomware to the healthcare and education industries with PyXie.” The threat actors behind PyXie were observed attempting to deliver ransomware to the healthcare and education industries with this new RAT.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The spread of this ransomware was considered to be the worst cyber attack in terms of contamination rate and scope, putting public offices and companies (especially healthcare facilities) out of operation. Only the registration of this domain subsequently created the condition (kill swich) for the malware to stop spreading.

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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. Require phishing-resistant MFA for as many services as possible—particularly for webmail, VPNs, accounts that access critical systems, and privileged accounts that manage backups.

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Ransomware VPN Cybercrime Accountability 79

Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

“The department had reverted to its backup system, radio, to dispatch officers in response to 911 calls instead of its computer assisted dispatch system. . “We have learned the attack’s biggest impact is likely at the Dallas Police Department.” ” reported the website of Fox4News. reads the alert.

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Ransomware Healthcare Education Encryption 98

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The hospital notified federal police which is still investigating the security breach, the good news is that patient data was not exposed. The hospital has been restoring the backups and rebuilding all its 1,300, the operations are expected to be fully restored by early next month.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

” Since March 2020, the PYSA ransomware was involved in attacks against US and foreign government entities, educational institutions, private companies, and the healthcare sector. These actors use PYSA to exfiltrate data from victims prior to encrypting victim’s systems to use as leverage in eliciting ransom payments.”

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