Cybersecurity

Hackers are using AI to accelerate attacks on hospital virtual private networks, reviving a tactic first deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reported. Exploiting VPNs, Russia-based Qilin has emerged as one of the most active ransomware operators…

Unlimited Technology Systems, a practice management and revenue cycle software vendor, has disclosed a data breach affecting at least 442,000 patients whose personal and medical information was exposed in an October 2025 hack. A subsequent forensic investigation found an unauthorized…

MCBS, a medical billing and revenue cycle management company, has disclosed that a network breach compromised personal and health information belonging to 1.26 million individuals, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. MCBS detected unauthorized access…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed still has 13 services and practice locations closed as of Wednesday, four days into a malware-related cybersecurity incident that knocked out the four-hospital system’s phones, internet and computer systems. Closed locations include imaging sites in Anderson, Cannon,…

Nvidia’s new Open Secure AI Alliance, with 37 founding members including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Salesforce, is being framed as an industry response to a single incident. For hospital and health system leaders, it’s worth reading as something narrower and…

Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health is notifying patients after a file containing limited protected health information was inadvertently uploaded to an external artificial intelligence platform. The incident occurred May 25, during an Institutional Review Board-approved research study at the health…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed reopened its physician offices for scheduled appointments July 28 as the four-hospital system continues to recover from a malware-related cybersecurity incident. In a July 27 statement, AnMed said its phones, internet and computer systems remain offline. The…

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta lost $5.3 million in a 2023 business email compromise scheme that ended with a four-year prison sentence for the accountant who laundered the stolen funds, most of which were recovered. A federal jury convicted Ronald Deabler,…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed is experiencing a cybersecurity disruption involving malware that forced the closure of dozens of clinics and imaging locations across its network Monday. The four-hospital system said it is working with third-party cybersecurity specialists and state and federal…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and five other federal partners have updated a joint advisory warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are now targeting programmable logic controllers (aka PLCs) made by Siemens and Schneider Electric. The July 22 update adds…