Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare has disclosed a data breach that impacted 40 affiliated nursing facilities. In November 2023, the Healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare discovered a data breach that exposed personal health information related to residents and employees at HMG affiliated nursing facilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Kentucky health system Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after it was a victim of a ransomware attack in May. Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack that hit the organization on May 9, 2023. The security breach exposed personal information belonging to patients, employees, and dependents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Russian authorities arrested ransomware affiliate Mikhail Matveev, aka Wazawaka, for developing malware and ties to hacking groups. and New Jersey, as well as organizations in the healthcare and other sectors nationwide. The Department of State offered up to $10 million for information that leads to the arrest of the man.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

ConnectOnCall disclosed a data breach impacting over 900,000 individuals, exposing their personal information. ConnectOnCall is a telehealth platform and after-hours on-call answering service designed to enhance communication between healthcare providers and patients. concludes the notice. concludes the notice.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

FBI and the DHS’s CISA agencies published a joint alert to warn hospitals and healthcare providers of imminent ransomware attacks from Russia. The government agencies receive information about imminent attacks, threat actors are using the TrickBot botnet to deliver the infamous ransomware to the infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims. If convicted, the man could face up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count, 10 years for each computer hacking charge, and 5 years for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Omni Family Health is a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare services to communities in California, focusing on underserved populations. Omni Family Health aims to improve access to quality healthcare and address health disparities in the regions they serve.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

Healthcare firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach caused by a partner’s compromised account that exposed protected health information. Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach after a partner’s compromised account was used to access its systems. ” continues the Form 8-K.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

” NKTsKI recommends organizations to strengthen monitoring of threats and information security events in systems provided by LANIT. LANIT Group (Laboratory of New Information Technologies) is one of Russia’s largest IT service and software providers. ” said U.S.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For a second consecutive year, the time for Kaspersky to make its predictions for the healthcare sector comes amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. A 2021 report by Constella Intelligence found that the number of personal data leaks in healthcare grew by half when compared to 2019. Several factors contributed to that.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2024

A cyberattack hit the US Healthcare giant Ascension and is causing disruption of the systems at hospitals in the country. Ascension is one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, ranking second in the United States by the number of hospitals as of 2019. ” reads the notice of security incident.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

US authorities have issued a joint advisory warning of North Korea-linked APTs using Maui ransomware in attacks against the Healthcare sector. 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The hospital revealed that the security breach exposed sensitive health data for over 316,000 patients. Anna Jaques Hospital is a not-for-profit community healthcare facility located in Newburyport, Massachusetts. On December 25, 2023, a ransomware attack hit the Anna Jaques Hospital.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2024

WebTPA, a third-party administrator that provides healthcare management and administrative services, disclosed a data breach. WebTPA is a third-party administrator that provides healthcare management and administrative services. The US company disclosed a data breach that impacted almost 2.5 million people.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The US Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack last week. Ardent Health Services is a healthcare company that operates hospitals and other medical facilities in the United States. The healthcare provider disclosed that it has suffered a ransomware attack on November 23. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Advocate Aurora Health).

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

CISA adds NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The healthcare industry might be known for the work it does to treat patients. With copious amounts of data collected by healthcare facilities, cybercriminals often target such entities. Moreover, the healthcare industry collects unique data, known as Protected Health Information (PHI), which is extremely valuable.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., ” The U.S.

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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. According to sources, a hack has exposed data of over 780,000 children who were patients of Brightline.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bleeping Computer reported that a threat actor using the moniker ‘nears’ (previously near2tlg) claimed to have had access to patient records of over 1,500,000 people following the hack of multiple healthcare organizations in France. Altered records may cause misdiagnoses or medical errors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2025

.” reported Veriti “35% of companies analyzed were unprotected due to misconfigured Intrusion Prevention Systems in their NextGenFirewall or WebApplicationFirewall” Attacks also targeted financial and healthcare firms in Germany, Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia, and the UK. ” conclude the report.“Security

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The company discovered the zero-day vulnerabilities in IoT live-streaming cameras, used in industrial operations, healthcare, and other sensitive environments. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, PTZOptics cameras)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The healthcare center discovered that a threat actor accessed and encrypted files on their systems between September 5, 2024 and September 8, 2024. At this time, no ransomware groups claimed responsibility for the security breach. On September 8, 2024, Great Plains Regional Medical Center (Oklahoma) suffered a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

healthcare organizations of targeted ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks. healthcare organizations of targeted attacks conducted by ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks. This alert aims at organizations in the healthcare sector because ALPHV Blackcat affiliates have been observed primarily targeting this sector.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Hulea pleaded guilty to computer fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy on June 20 for his role in the NetWalker ransomware attacks against organizations worldwide, including healthcare during COVID-19. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, ransomware)

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. Local governments, small and medium-sized businesses, large international corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions are the common targets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked the Chinese state-owned energy conglomerate China Energy Engineering Corporation. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked Abdali Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital located in Jordan. pic.twitter.com/6uHMDcNhTC — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) December 26, 2023 The group published images of stolen documents as proof of the hack. Abdali Hospital provides care to patients in numerous specialties.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Pro-Russia group Killnet is launching a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The Pro-Russia group Killnet launched a series of DDoS attacks against US healthcare organizations and hospitals. In the last week, the pro-Russia group intensified its activity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta warns nearly 5,000 employees that their personal information was exposed due to a data breach suffered by the third-party vendor Rightway Healthcare. In December 2022, the American identity and access management giant revealed that its private GitHub repositories were hacked.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2023

How healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) can manage the IT asset risks during a healthcare M&A process. But M&As are also common in the healthcare industry, and the question is how healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) can manage the risks associated with the process – specifically, IT asset risks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

St Vincent’s Health Australia, the largest Australian healthcare provider, suffered a data breach after a cyber attack. St Vincent’s Health Australia is the largest non-profit healthcare provider in the country, The healthcare system was hit by a cyberattack that resulted in a data breach.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

As proof of the hack, the group published several ID cards, personal documents, contracts, and a screenshot of the folders containing stolen data. The group also announced to have hacked the Asian branch of Axa and stole three terabytes of data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Avaddon). Pierluigi Paganini.

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