eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Ransomware attacks and data breaches make headlines when they shut down huge connected healthcare providers such as Ascension Healthcare or Change Healthcare. IT should never be the top expense for a healthcare organization. The costs, affected patients, and consequences continue to be tallied.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. The post Information Security News headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Part three of a four-part series In 2024, global pressure on companies to implement advanced data protection measures intensified, with new standards in encryption and software transparency raising the bar. And industries like healthcare face persistent targeting due to their outdated systems and high-value data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data.

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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. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The group has extended its operations to countries in Asia and targets various sectors, including healthcare, real estate, construction, IT, food, and manufacturing.” ” The group uses an ARCrypter ransomware variant, derived from Babuks leaked code , to encrypt files after infiltrating a network. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ptitsyn reportedly sold the ransomware on darknet forums under aliases like “derxan” and “zimmermanx,” enabling other criminals to encrypt data and demand ransom. Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns healthcare organizations of Royal ransomware attacks. The Health and Human Services (HHS) is aware of attacks against the Healthcare and Public Healthcare (HPH) sector. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft. .

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems that are increasingly used in healthcare. Healthcare organizations would need to evaluate their AI for accuracy, fairness, and security—similar to testing new drugs for safety and efficacy before they reach patients. for SecureWorld News.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. The Meaningful Use portion of the HITECH Act provided healthcare organizations a carrot to encourage the adoption of electronic health records.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Plus, he somehow encrypted the config, i.e. he had an encoder and a private key, plus uploaded it all to the admin panel. Department of Homeland Security hastily assembled a conference call with healthcare industry executives warning about an “ imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Royal Ransomware operators added support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The Royal Ransomware gang is the latest extortion group in order of time to add support for encrypting Linux devices and target VMware ESXi virtual machines. The malware changes the extension of the encrypted files to ‘.royal’.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

Community Health Center (CHC) data breach impacted over 1 million patients in Connecticut, the healthcare provider started notifying them. Community Health Center (CHC) is a leading healthcare provider based in Connecticut, offering primary care, dental, behavioral health, and specialty services.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Alexander hasn’t lost a step pouring his creative energy into studies related to the development of “ ” for healthcare applications – essentially using data analytics to simulate human organs, the better to keep them in tune. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2025

. “Like the majority of ransomware operators, Spearwing and its affiliates carry out double extortion attacks, stealing victims’ data before encrypting networks in order to increase the pressure on victims to pay a ransom,” reads the report published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Attackers use packet-sniffing tools to capture sensitive information traveling between international servers, potentially exposing financial records, intellectual property, and personally identifiable information (PII). He can be reached at siddik.mtech@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2025

The malware kills previous instances, deletes itself to evade detection, reads system configuration files, and establishes an encrypted C2 channel on port 82. It processes encrypted data over a RAW socket, limiting further analysis. The shell module enables backdoor access for data exfiltration and persistence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

3 cyberattack led to unauthorized access, file withdrawals, and encryption of critical applications. “Preliminary investigations indicate that threat actors unlawfully accessed the Companys network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files. Qilin has targeted various sectors, including healthcare.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Become familiar with the standards that affect your industry, such as GDPR, CCPA, SOX, HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). Assign roles and responsibilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The ransomware was originally written in Go language and was employed in attacks aimed at healthcare and education sectors in countries like Thailand and Indonesia. The Rust variant has also been seen using intermittent encryption, one of the emerging tactics that threat actors use today for faster encryption and detection evasion.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. The group is known to have a role for its affiliates that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations. Other ransomware attacks recently hit US hospitals.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Universal Health Services (UHS) healthcare providers has reportedly shut down systems at healthcare facilities after a Ryuk ransomware attack. Universal Health Services (UHS) is an American Fortune 500 company that provides hospital and healthcare services, in 2019, its annual revenues were $11.37 billion in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2022

The Kansas hospital opted to pay approximately a $100,000 ransom in Bitcoin to receive a decryptor e recover the encrypted files. Treasury Department issued a joint advisory that warn of North Korea-linked threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks aimed at organizations in the Healthcare sector.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I recently had the chance to discuss iO with Dr. Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Nefilim will encrypt a file using AES-128 encryption, then the AES encryption key is encrypted using an RSA-2048 public key that is embedded in the ransomware executable. The encrypted AES key will be included in the contents of each encrypted file. This includes running charter flights from China.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX says it has more than 600,000 customers and 12 million users in a broad range of industries, including aerospace, healthcare and hospitality. Mandiant found the compromised 3CX software would download malware that sought out new instructions by consulting encrypted icon files hosted on GitHub.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA).

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

The new variant was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. Upon execution, the ransomware enumerates files on all drives and network shares and attempt to encrypt them, experts noticed that the encryption algorithm used is the same as the one of the other Vega variants.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. It didn’t only affect the financial datasets of business sectors but also the medical records maintained by healthcare institutions such as hospitals. Final Thoughts.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2020, the pandemic forced companies to restructure their information security practices, accommodating a work-from-home (WFH) approach. In 2020, organizations seeking our assistance represented a wide spectrum of business sectors, industry, finance, government, telecoms, transportation and healthcare.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a groundbreaking move, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that aims to safeguard the state's critical infrastructure, specifically its healthcare sector. This proactive approach will undoubtedly strengthen patient trust and confidence in New York's healthcare system.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2024

The healthcare organization notified law enforcement and hired third-party forensic and information technology experts to assist. It also announced additional security measures to protect its infrastructure. “We purposely didn’t encrypt this hospital so as not to interfere with patient care.

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