A recently updated guidance document developed by an advisory group to the Department of Health and Human Services can help all types of organizations within the healthcare sector be better prepared to deal with the latest cyberthreats, said attorney David Holtzman of HITprivacy LLC.
In the evolving threat landscape, small-time threat actors are entering the ransomware space and targeting small and medium-sized businesses. These organizations must adopt a defense-in-depth approach to defend themselves, said Nick Biasini, head of outreach at Cisco Talos.
What's behind the profusion of reported attacks involving stolen or reused strains of ransomware? Blame a variety of factors, including law enforcement crackdowns, evolving ransomware business models and at least one case of a ransomware group leader with poor morale-building skills.
The number of major health data breaches is decreasing, but a recent disturbing trend reflects the vulnerability of critical vendors and the tenacity of cybercriminals, say John Delano, a vice president of Christus Health, and Mike Hamilton, CISO and co-founder of security firm Critical Insight.
Two organizations that operate clinics and hospitals in the Midwest are the latest medical care providers struggling with an enterprisewide IT outage affecting clinical and administrative applications. The incident appears similar to recent attacks on several other regional entities.
Citrix NetScaler defenders are being warned to not just patch a critical flaw but also review logs from before mid-July for signs of compromise, since attackers - including "a known threat actor specializing in ransomware attacks" - have been dropping web shells that survive patching and rebooting.
U.S. authorities Tuesday said they permanently dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet in an international operation that seized 52 servers and nearly $9 million worth of cryptocurrency. Law enforcement identified more than 700,000 computers infected with the Qakbot malware.
Ransomware groups, like legitimate businesses, must adapt and change as they grow, in response to external pressures and trends. To survive, many large ransomware groups have adopted decentralized structures, said Yelisey Bohuslavskiy, chief research officer and partner with Red Sense.
Ransomware and data exfiltration attacks continue to stick victims with serious bills to cover cleanup, legal and other resulting costs - to the tune of $10.8 million and counting for cloud computing giant Rackspace, for one. Rackspace was hit by the Play ransomware group last year.
A new healthcare-focused research agency is seeking proposals for innovative cybersecurity technologies that can apply a national security approach to protecting this highly targeted civilian industry. Today's off-the-shelf software is falling short, the agency said.
Hackers are using a tool set that first appeared in 2020 and apparently was developed by Turkish speakers to deploy Scarab ransomware, said Eset researchers. They dubbed the threat actors behind it CosmicBeetle and assess with "high confidence" that they exploit the 2020 vulnerability ZeroLogon.
This week, a ransomware gang claimed responsibility for attacks on a multistate U.S. hospital chain, a cyberattack disrupted expat voting in Ecuador, Africa cracked down on cybercrime, Latitude Financial said its hacking incident cost AU$76 million, and new malware targeted macOS users.
Ransomware-wielding hackers are moving faster than ever to pull the trigger on malicious encryption - but they could be bumping up against the limits of how fast they can go, say security researchers at Sophos. Better endpoint detection may be spurring ransomware hackers into acting faster.
The Cuba ransomware group is exploiting a bug in data backup software exposed in March, warn BlackBerry security researchers. The firm says the Cuba group in June attacked a critical infrastructure organization in the United States and an IT integrator in Latin America.
A ransomware campaign by the recently emerged Monti ransomware group is targeting victims with a new Linux variant of its malware. The threat group is the latest in a growing number of ransomware groups finding profit in going after Linux infrastructure.
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