The Food and Drug Administration is urging blood suppliers - a recent target of attacks - to bolster their cybersecurity practices to prevent and mitigate cyber incidents that could affect the supply and safety of critical blood and blood components used for transfusions and other patient care.
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A new playbook from the Health Sector Coordinating Council aims to help manufacturers of medical products such as pharmaceuticals, devices and durable equipment plot out and improve their response to ransomware attacks and other cyber incidents.
A small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
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CrowdStrike has countersued customer Delta Air Lines, accusing the airline of employing a lawsuit and seeking damages in "a desperate attempt to shift blame" for Delta's own IT inadequacies having exacerbated its outage, unlike "other major airlines" that quickly resumed operations.
When a large hospital in an urban area is shut down by ransomware, the disruption can be significant, but when a rural hospital faces a similar cyber outage, the impact on patient safety and the community can be extreme, said Nitin Natarajan of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
UnitedHealth Group has raised its estimates to nearly $2.9 billion for the total costs this fiscal year of the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare IT services unit. UHG said it is also working to catch up with claims processing and to win back clients disenfranchised by the attack.
Ransomware gang Rhysida is threatening to dump data on the darkweb that belongs to a Colorado provider of mental health, substance abuse and other healthcare services unless it pays nearly $1.5 million. The group is leaking records it claims to have stolen from a Mississippi nursing home.
The United Kingdom's National Health Service said nearly all services disrupted by a June ransomware attack on pathology laboratory services provider Synnovis are finally back online. The incident triggered a national blood supply shortage and forced cancellation of thousands of medical procedures.
University Medical Center, a Lubbock, Texas-based public health system that includes a level-one trauma center and a children's hospital, is diverting ambulances and working to restore an IT outage affecting some patient services in the wake of a ransomware attack late last week.
Two U.S. senators are proposing stricter cyber mandates for the healthcare sector. The bill provides funding to help hospitals adopt enhanced requirements, but lifts HIPAA enforcement fine caps and threatens executives with prison time for falsely attesting their organizations' compliance in audits.
Threat actors tracked as "Vanilla Tempest" - and also known as Vice Society - appear to be changing up the ransomware they use to attack on U.S. healthcare organizations. Likely in a move to avoid detection, the ransomware-as-a-service group has shifted to INC Ransom malware, according to Microsoft.
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