Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Other security.txt disclosures are less verbose, as in the case of HCA Healthcare , which lists a contact email address, and a link to HCA’s “responsible disclosure” policies. Having a security.txt file can make it easier for organizations to respond to active security threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. Post Covid 19, these patterns are likely to become even more engrained as digitally remote work, education, healthcare and entertainment activities predominate.

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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. It has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. ” reads the report published by HHS.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

.” Meanwhile, this week we learned more details about the ongoing exploitation of a zero-day flaw in a broad range of virtual private networking (VPN) products made by Fortinet — devices many organizations rely on to facilitate remote network access for employees. “Patch your #Fortigate.” “Patch your #Fortigate.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The impacted hospitals are Bluewater Health , Chatham-Kent Health Alliance , Erie Shores HealthCare , Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare , and Windsor Regional Hospital. The attackers also stole a “limited set” data from Erie Shoes HealthCare including 352 current and past employee social insurance numbers (SIN).

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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. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Since mid-2022, threat actors shifted to targeted, manual attacks on high-value targets like government agencies, critical infrastructure, R&D, healthcare, and finance. Attackers maintained persistence through VPN credentials, Active Directory DCSYNC access, and firmware-hooking methods to survive updates.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

Microsoft is sending notifications to dozens of hospitals about vulnerable VPN devices and gateways exposed online in their network. Microsoft is warning dozens of hospitals of the risks of ransomware attacks due to insecure VPN devices and gateways exposed online. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“You can provide us accounting data for the access to any company, for example, login and password to RDP, VPN, corporate email, etc. All lines of business except for: – Healthcare. Open our letter at your email. Launch the provided virus on any computer in your company. ” Image: Sophos. .” – Canada.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

Prosecutors say that on May 27, 2022, Matveev conspired with Hive to ransom a nonprofit behavioral healthcare organization headquartered in Mercer County, New Jersey. The indictments allege that on June 25, 2020, Matveev and his LockBit co-conspirators deployed LockBit ransomware against a law enforcement agency in Passaic County, New Jersey.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 9, 2021

Prestigious healthcare systems continue to be at risk for the next devastating ransomware attack or data breach. The Impact of COVID-19 in Healthcare Security Continues. The last year of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a striking proliferation of cyber-criminal activity against the healthcare industry.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 1, 2020

Microsoft has notified dozens of hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN appliances in their infrastructure, which could put them at risk.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. The Daixin Team group gains initial access to victims through virtual private network (VPN) servers. In one successful attack, the attackers likely exploited an unpatched vulnerability in the organization’s VPN server.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Akira: The Healthcare Menace The Akira ransomware group was first observed in March 2023 and immediately became one of the most formidable threats in the threat landscape. Akira’s victims spanned a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Ransomware attacks hit indiscriminately across business categories, from private corporations to government agencies, including schools and universities, hospitals and healthcare providers, financial institutions, and everything in between. •Chatter about the best methods to attack your business.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The biggest target is the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector, according to the advisory. "As Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with information about "Daixin Team," a cybercrime group actively targeting U.S. businesses with ransomware and data extortion operations.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

Source: BleepingComputer) Chinese cyber espionage hackers continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices. Source: BBC News) Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack. Source: The Hacker News) Studying the manipulation of security headers in browser extensions.

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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. This kind of fraud can disrupt your medical care and cost a lot of money to resolve.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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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. “This is the first time Mandiant has seen a software supply chain attack lead to another software supply chain attack,” reads the April 20 Mandiant report. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The most popular options include virtual private network (VPN) or remote desktop protocol (RDP). VPN works by initiating a secure connection over the internet through data encryption. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability. One downside of using a VPN connection involves vulnerability.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This is where a Virtual Private Network (VPN) comes in. A VPN helps protect your online activity from anyone who might try to access it by encrypting your network traffic to turn it into an unreadable format, and masking your original IP address. Typically, if you want a VPN on your phone, you need to get one from a third party.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

Silk Typhoon targets multiple sectors worldwide, including information technology (IT) services and infrastructure, remote monitoring and management (RMM) companies, managed service providers (MSPs) and affiliates, healthcare, legal services, higher education, defense, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and energy.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Although this involves monitoring users, the goal is to protect sensitive data, particularly in industries where data security is critical, such as healthcare and finance. Regulatory Compliance : Certain industries, such as healthcare and finance, require strict data protection measures.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Attackers are targeting organizations in the healthcare industry via malspam campaigns using malicious attachments. Some of them like DoppelPaymer and Maze groups announced that they would no target healthcare organizations during the pandemic. ” reads a press release published by the Interpol.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The DNG now allows users to access on-premises applications and desktops securely and easily via RDP, without requiring a VPN connection. To learn how this feature works, check out the blog post How New Duo Feature Lets Users Skip the VPN Hassle from two Duo Engineering team members. DNG gives us time back to focus on the business.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A list of the user IDs permitted to use the firewall for SSL VPN and accounts that were permitted to use a clientless VPN connection. Since mid-2022, threat actors shifted to targeted, manual attacks on high-value targets like government agencies, critical infrastructure, R&D, healthcare, and finance.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The state-sponsored hackers targeted organizations in the transportation, healthcare, and public health sectors in the U.S., In May 2021, the Iran-linked threat actors breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. hospital specializing in healthcare for children.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The attacks have gone on since at least October 2023, Iran-linked threat actors attempted to hack user accounts and obtain access to organizations in the healthcare and public health (HPH), government, information technology, engineering, and energy sectors. Intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States. The malware used by the threat actors includes the ChunkyTuna, Tiny, and China Chopper web shells.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

This means that the DNG now enables users to access on-premises shares, without requiring a full VPN connection. It also eliminates the need for full VPN and avoids exposing those applications directly to the internet. This capability is generally available for Duo Beyond customers. What is Duo Network Gateway?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

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