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. The planned cuts to CISA underscore a critical juncture for U.S.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Medical identity theft Medical identity theft happens when someone steals or uses your personal information like your name, Social Security number, or Medicare details, to get healthcare in your name. How to protect yourself and your data Smart ways to secure your devices Strong passwords – Make them long, random, and unique.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

When people and businesses reuse passwords across accounts, hackers find an easy way in. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Stop threats early before they can infiltrate or infect your endpoints. Dont get attacked twice.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and frequently do siphon every single password stored on each infected endpoint. Cloud-based health insurance management portals. .” In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. .”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2023

Backup before you go The consequences of losing your device or having it stolen are worse when you are outside of your own environment. So make sure that you have recent backups of your important data, and don't keep the backups on the devices you are taking. Updating them while you are travelling can be slow and tedious.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

While anyone can fall victim to these threat actors, the FBI noted that this malware has been used to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure organizations, including defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, technology companies, and especially organizations in the healthcare and medical industries.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to those few groups, their cybercriminal actions would never include organizations actively involved in healthcare, such as hospitals. Unfortunately, we have seen these type of disruptions in healthcare before. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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