May 8, 2020 Europe’s Largest Private Hospital Operator Hit with Snake Ransomware Attack A large-scale Snake ransomware campaign is underway after a period of low-level activity. Snake ransomware was first identified by MalwareHunter Team in January 2020 and ... Read more
May 6, 2020 Malicious COVID-19 Domains Taken Down and New Blocklists Released Cybercriminals have registered large numbers of COVID-19 themed domains which are being used for a variety of scams. Internet service providers are being ordered to ... Read more
April 29, 2020 Microsoft Offers Advice to Healthcare Organizations on Reducing Risk of Manual Ransomware Attacks Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations and others involved in the fight against COVID-19 are continuing. In many cases, the attackers gained access to systems many ... Read more
April 20, 2020 14,795 Oncology Patients Impacted in Washington University School of Medicine Data Breach Washington University School of Medicine is getting in touch with 14,795 oncology patients to inform them that a portion of their protected health information may ... Read more
April 16, 2020 Two Zoom Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Offered for Sale for $500,000 Two zero-day flaws in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have allegedly been discovered by hackers who are now offering them for sale. The hackers claim the ... Read more
April 14, 2020 Ransomware Attack on Andrews Braces Impacts PHI of 16,600 Patients The Sparks, NV orthodontics clinic, Andrews Braces, has suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in the encryption of patient data. The attack was discovered on ... Read more
April 13, 2020 INTERPOL Issues Warning About Increase in Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals Hospitals, research facilities and other healthcare organizations on the front line in the fight against the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Covid-19 are not only facing ... Read more
April 13, 2020 Brandywine Urology Consultants Ransomware Attack Potentially Impacts Over 113,000 Patients Delaware medial practice Brandywine Urology Consultants has revealed that a ransomware attack on January 25, 2020 led to the encryption of files on its servers ... Read more
April 10, 2020 Healthcare Resource Group & Confido have PHI Exposed in Phishing Attacks The pharmacy benefits consulting group Confido has begun alerting 3,600 of its clients’ employees, members, and their dependents, that a portion of their personal information ... Read more
April 7, 2020 More Than 82% of Public-Facing Exchange Servers Still Vulnerable to Critical Exchange Control Panel Flaw An analysis of public-facing Exchange servers by Rapid7 has revealed 82.5% are still vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Exchange Control ... Read more
April 3, 2020 Zoom Security Concerns Mount as New Flaws Identified The 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic has forced many employees into telecommuting with them maintaining contact with the office through videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Zoom ... Read more
April 2, 2020 Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services Data Breach Impacts up to 35,800 Patients The Otis R. Bowen Center for Human Services, an Indiana-based supplier of mental health and addiction recovery healthcare services, has revealed that unauthorized actors have ... Read more
March 25, 2020 Data Breaches Reported at LifeSprk & University of Utah Health LifeSprk is making contact with 9,000 of its account holders to inform them that a a limited amount of their protected health information may have ... Read more
March 24, 2020 Apptio Integrates AWS Savings Plans More Fully into Cloudability Platform Apptio has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) Savings Plans have now been further incorporated into the Apptio Cloudability platform and recommendations will be made ... Read more
March 10, 2020 Microsoft Releases Patches for 115 Vulnerabilities Including 26 Critical Flaws Microsoft released a record number of patches on March Patch Tuesday. 115 vulnerabilities have been patched across the entire product range, including 26 vulnerabilities that ... Read more
March 3, 2020 Google’s Response to Senators Questions About Ascension Partnership Deemed Incomplete After it became public that a massive amount of patient data had been shared with Google by the Catholic health system Ascension, the second biggest ... Read more
March 2, 2020 High Severity Flaw Patched in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver NVIDIA has released security updates that correct flaws in the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and NVIDIA VGPU Software. An updated GPU display driver has been ... Read more
February 29, 2020 What is a DNS Filter? In this post we explain what a DNS filter is, why DNS filtering is important for cybersecurity, and other advantages of DNS filtering, but first ... Read more
February 25, 2020 Micropatch Available to Fix for CVE-2020-0674 Internet Explorer Flaw for Windows 10 1903 and 1909 Users Enterprise users of Windows 10 v1903 and v1909 may have held off patching the CVE-2020-0674 vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9-11 due to the problems ... Read more
February 24, 2020 Physician Network Affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital Impacted by Malware Attack On Monday, February 10, 2020, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC), a physician group that works with Boston Children’s Hospital, suffered a malware attack that ... Read more
February 22, 2020 Manchester Ophthalmology & UnitedHealthcare Impacted by Data Breaches Manchester Ophthalmology in Connecticut has suffered a cyberattack in which the hackers may have gained access to patient data. The eye care supplier became aware ... Read more
February 20, 2020 2020 Healthcare Data Breach Report Protenus has released its 2020 healthcare data breach report which shows the past 12 months have been the worst ever in terms of the number ... Read more
February 13, 2020 30,000 Patients Impacted by Fondren Orthopedic Group Malware Attack Fondren Orthopedic Group, an association of private orthopedic surgery practitioners in Houston and the surrounding areas, experienced a cyberattack that affected certain parts of its ... Read more
February 13, 2020 16,167 Patients Hit by Hospital Sisters Health System Email Breach Hospital Sisters Health System has recently found out that an email security breach in August 2019 led to unauthorized people obtaining access to emails and ... Read more
February 6, 2020 Phoenix Children’s Hospital & New York Nursing Center Impacted by Phishing Incident A business email compromise (BEC) attack has impacted Village Center for Care dba VillageCare Rehabilitative and Nursing Center (VRNC) and Village Senior Services Corporation dba ... Read more
January 27, 2020 55% of Organizations Were Successfully Phished in 2019 Phishing is the most common method of attacking organizations and it continues to cause problems for IT departments and considerable losses for organizations. A new ... Read more
January 20, 2020 Florida and Texas Healthcare Providers Report Ransomware Attacks One of the most recent developments in the world of cyber crime to the tactic of threat actors to deploy ransomware to encrypt files to ... Read more
January 14, 2020 NSA Issues Cybersecurity Advisory on Critical Flaw Affecting Windows 10 and Windows Server The U.S. National Security Agency has taken the unusual step of publicly disclosing a vulnerability to a software vendor. This is the first time that ... Read more
January 13, 2020 Phishing Attack Leads to Second Lawsuit Against Kalispell Regional Healthcare A second lawsuit has been submitted against Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Montana in relation to a May 2019 phishing attack that resulted in the email ... Read more
January 4, 2020 Survey: Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches Predicted to Reach $4 Billion in 2020 Healthcare sector data breaches are taking place at an unprecedented level. The healthcare data breach figures for 2019 have yet to be drawn up, but ... Read more