The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Businesses must adopt tools and automation capable of invoking immediate action, even at the risk of false positives. Raising security baselines across industries is essential, with risk mitigationnot acceptancebecoming the standard. Security teams will need to address the unique risks posed using LLMs in mission critical environments.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. Note that I say, “reduce your risk,” not eliminate it. However, all is not lost if your healthcare organization is starting its cybersecurity journey, or even if you have a mature cybersecurity program.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Wandera finds malicious network traffic and configuration vulnerabilities on mobile devices as popular entry points for cybercriminals.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Not cute: $UNH’s Change Healthcare unit paid a big ransom—its IT was as weak as a kitten. The post 100 MILLION Americans in UnitedHealth PII Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Memorial Hospital and Manor is a community hospital and healthcare facility that serves Decatur County and surrounding areas in southwest Georgia. It offers a range of healthcare services, including emergency care, inpatient and outpatient services, surgical care, and specialized medical services. .” Ransomware attacks on U.S.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

Another important reason why we must address quantum-supremacy risks well in advance has to do with the nature of data. NIST has already begun to narrow down its list of recommended ways to address quantum’s risks to encryption – and products have already hit the market already that enable businesses to begin such transitions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, industries reliant on shared devices—such as healthcare, retail, and manufacturing—face unique challenges. For example, in healthcare, constant authentication interruptions can impact both patient care and productivity. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. This breach shows just how deeply ransomware

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The post Critical ‘Backdoor’ Discovered in Widely Used Healthcare Patient Monitors appeared first on Security Boulevard. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication regarding cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Contec CMS8000 and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. Healthcare Cyberattacks Common – And Costly. The financial costs of healthcare cyberattacks are high, the report noted, costing an average of $4.4

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a hospital's systems are held hostage by ransomware, it’s not just data at risk — it’s the care of patients who depend on life-saving treatments.

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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. The company is notifying the impacted individuals.

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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ransomware continues to pose an alarming threat to critical infrastructure, with the healthcare sector being particularly vulnerable to its devastating effects. This highlights the domino effect that ransomware attacks can have on healthcare delivery at a regional level, categorizing them as a regional disaster.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping many industries, and healthcare is no exception. Leading healthcare providers and companies are avidly adopting advanced generative AI tools to drive operational efficiencies and improve patient care. Of course, not everyone is enthusiastic about AI's ascendance in healthcare.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 24, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, parent company of Optum and Change Healthcare, has confirmed that it paid the ransom demands of the cybercriminals behind the late February incident that led to widespread service outages in the U.S. healthcare industry.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Sectors like healthcare, education, and government are particularly vulnerable, where a single attack can cripple critical operations, expose sensitive information, and, in the most severe cases, put lives at risk. According to ThreatLabz research, global ransomware incidents have seen a significant 17.8%

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2024

Lessons from the Change Healthcare Cyberattack: Strengthening Cybersecurity Measures in the Healthcare IndustryChange Healthcare, one of the major players in the healthcare industry was recently hit by a cyberattack that caused significant disruptions nationwide.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

healthcare system. The legislation is a direct response to a surge in cyberattacks targeting healthcare providers, breaching patient privacy, and disrupting care delivery across the nation. The legislation could potentially lower costs associated with recovery from breaches and improve public trust in healthcare services.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has stepped in to ensure patients are made aware if their sensitive data was compromised during February's massive cyberattack on health IT firm Change Healthcare. The unprecedented directive stems from Change Healthcare's business acquisition by UnitedHealth in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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.” On Monday, Oct. Today, officials from the FBI and the U.S. ” The agencies on the conference call, which included the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

100 million US citizens officially impacted by Change Healthcare data breach. We don’t just report on threats – we help safeguard your entire digital identity Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Dell notifies customers about data breach (49 million customers) 4. Heres what you need to know.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

TechCrunch has been tracking the fallout from victim organizations , which range from banks and insurance providers to universities and healthcare entities. MOVEit parent Progress Software has since released security updates to address the weakness, but Cl0p claims to have already used it to compromise hundreds of victim organizations.

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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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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. The incident led to widespread billing outages, as well as disruptions at pharmacies across the United States.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We’ve learned to expect that “smart” appliances come with privacy risks— toothbrushes aside —but I really hadn’t given my air fryer any thought. You don’t need to worry about the air fryers sending reports about your eating habits to your healthcare provider just yet. Now things are about to change. But according to Which?,

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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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SecureWorld News

JULY 18, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, the Minnesota-based health insurance giant, recently announced its second quarter results, revealing a stark financial impact from the cyberattack on Change Healthcare. The breach's scale and complexity have made it one of the most significant cyber incidents in the healthcare sector in recent years. billion and $2.45

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2024

With every new healthcare API integration that OpenAI gets access to, the attack surface grows, creating new opportunities for attackers. The post Beware of OpenAI and ChatGPT-4 Turbo in Healthcare Orgs’ API Attack Surface appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There is great risk that users may attribute this problem to Microsoft and associate these problems with Microsoft’s Windows products, thereby diluting and tarnishing the value of the Microsoft and Windows trademarks and brands.” On Sunday, Sept.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 7, 2024

The unprecedented cyberattack on healthcare giant Change Healthcare has taken a chaotic turn, with allegations that the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang conducted an "exit scam"—shutting down operations after receiving a $22 million ransom payment from the company without paying their own affiliate hacker.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Tools like ChatGPT and Bard, powered by large language models, showcase how generative AI transforms business processesbut they also pose new risks. In a recent survey, 93% of respondents admitted to knowingly increasing their companys cybersecurity risks. The challenge? Securing these AI models and the data they generate.

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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.

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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. We wish to clarify that the health data concerned was not hosted by the Softway Medical Group.

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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. Continuously educating and informing staff about the risks and methods used by cybercriminals to launch attacks and steal data.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But at the same time we also know that many organizations in the healthcare industry do not have the staff to handle this, not do they have the funding to hire those staff. We don’t just report on threats – we help safeguard your entire digital identity Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2024

Following the February 21 attack on Change Healthcare , scores of people in the US have been living with the brutal, real-world effects of ransomware. They are always damaging and they always cause pain, but when they hit the healthcare system, the consequences—particularly the risk to life—are often more immediately obvious and shocking.

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