Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As I said, our IT department recently notified me that some of my data was leaked and a pre-emptive password reset was enforced as they didn't know what was leaked.    It would be good to see it as an informational notification in case there's an increase in attack attempts against my email address.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

100 million US citizens officially impacted by Change Healthcare data breach. In July, a user leaked a file containing 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. If you dont reuse passwords and never use simple passwords, like single words, then this release should not concern you.

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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. Nothing showed evidence that a HIPAA-compliant risk analysis had ever been conducted (lists of usernames and passwords in plain text on the compromised server).

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2024

UnitedHealth Group has given an update on the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare , one of its subsidiaries. On Wednesday February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced serious system outages due to the cyberattack. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

The unauthorized actor gained access to Magellan’s systems after sending a phishing email on April 6 that impersonated a Magellan client,” The healthcare giant reported the incident to the US authorities and retained experts from cybersecurity firm Mandiant to help with the investigation into the cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Then, it re-encrypts the system using a randomly generated password. This unique password is uploaded to a server controlled by the attacker. The random password is generated from network traffic and memory data, making brute-forcing difficult. The encryption process took just 2.5

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Healthcare organizations can’t afford to let preventable breaches slip by. Globally, the average cost of a healthcare data breach has reached $10.93 The situation for healthcare organizations may seem bleak. But there is hope.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They dont crack into password managers or spy on passwords entered for separate apps. If enough victims unwittingly send their passwords, the cyber thieves may even bundle the login credentials for sale on the dark web. The requests are bogus and simply a method for harvesting passwords.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Qilin ransomware group listed CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, a nonprofit health care treatment organization, as one of their latest victims. Qilin seems to have a preference for healthcare and support organizations. As ThreatDown reported earlier in 2024, 70% of all known attacks on healthcare happen in the US.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2020

(that's a tweet thread with pics from each day as I travel around the country) NordVPN has released their Cybersecurity A-Z guide (this is a great resource for everyone, techie or not) Someone sent me through tens of thousands of customer records from a healthcare website (that's a link to a previous incident, point is it just keeps happening over (..)

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) security team (the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center or HC3) released a report detailing how Royal ransomware has been used to target the healthcare sector. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks targeting healthcare have increased dramatically.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 16, 2021

Cyber attacks against the healthcare industry continue to rise. Their story is an example for other healthcare systems to follow. The hospital system realized they needed to shore up their defenses when routine penetration tests flagged IT operations practices that could allow malicious hackers to capture privileged passwords.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Trickbot has been used to steal passwords from millions of infected computers, and reportedly to hijack access to well more than 250 million email accounts from which new copies of the malware are sent to the victim’s contacts. On Sunday, Sept.

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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. is an inadequate authentication mechanisms that could allow an attacker to access sensitive information like usernames, MD5 password hashes, and configuration data.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2024

For the first time since news broke about a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the company has released details about the data stolen during the attack. First, a quick refresher: On February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced serious system outages due to a cyberattack. Change your password. Watch out for fake vendors.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The FBI has issued an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about cyber attacks against healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. million payments. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a simple Google search, anyone could have found the password to one of the compromised, stolen email addresses: a gift to every opportunistic attacker.” The analysis of a subset of ~500 stolen credentials revealed that victims belong to a wide range of target industries, including IT, healthcare, real estate, and manufacturing.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” healthcare organizations. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Category Case Study The healthcare industry is facing an ever-growing cyber threat that has doubled in the last five years. Ransomware attacks are among the most common methods used to target healthcare systems, resulting in millions of people’s personal information being compromised and costing the healthcare systems millions of dollars.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 27, 2021 multiple cybersecurity media outlets began reporting on LastPass users who believed their master passwords had been stolen. LastPass is a “password manager” with both a web-based interface and mobile app that can help you generate, store, and access all of the ways you secure your favorite services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“The NKTsKI recommends that all organizations change passwords and keys for accessing their systems operated in LANIT data processing centers as soon as possible. The group serves various sectors, including finance, government, healthcare, and telecommunications.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals. NextGen Healthcare, Inc.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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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. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2022

internet user has lost 27 data points on average to online breaches, most of them emails, passwords and usernames,” by far the most out of any country around […]. The post Healthcare data breach affects 2 million; Malware allows cybercriminals to steal payment card numbers appeared first on BlackCloak | Protect Your Digital Life™.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Healthcare company Norton says a May breach led to the theft of data of around 2.5 Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2024

The healthcare industry has had a rough time when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the last few years, the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has gradually increased. Clearly, there’s still a lot of work to be done to improve cybersecurity measures in healthcare.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 5, 2022

In an ideal world, and increasingly in reality, any system or application that contains critical information such as banking information, healthcare, or corporate enterprise intellectual property are protected with multifactor.? Why do we care if a portion of the Instagram population has their usernames and passwords compromised??

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Consider that some 80 percent of hacking-related breaches occur because of weak or reused passwords, and that over 90 percent of consumers continue to re-use their intrinsically weak passwords. Authentication systems that leverage machine learning and biometric technology are now ready to replace legacy password-centric technologies.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 7, 2024

What changed, and what is NIST's updated password guidance and the role of password strength in 2024?” One area where best practices have evolved significantly over the past twenty years is password security best practices. What are the key takeaways from NIST's updated password guidance?”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Holden said at the end of September Trickbot held passwords and financial data stolen from more than 2.7 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. million Windows PCs. On Sunday, Sept.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Medatixx, a German medical software vendor whose products are used in over 21,000 health institutions, urges customers to change their application passwords following a ransomware attack that has severely impaired its entire operations. [.].

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

Common attacks to consumer protection Identity theft and fraud Some common types of identity theft and fraud include account takeover fraud , when criminals use stolen personal information such as account numbers, usernames, or passwords to hijack bank accounts, credit cards, and even email and social media accounts.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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