The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center are warning healthcare organizations about a ransomware group called Ghost.
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One year after a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, the breach—which exposed the personal and health data of 190 million individuals—has been deemed the largest in healthcare history.
Ransomware deployments were listed as healthcare executives' and cybersecurity professionals' top concern for 2025, according to a Feb. 18 report from Health-ISAC.
Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center plans to make $13.5 million in cybersecurity improvements as part of a settlement agreement over a 2023 data breach.
Frederick Health has restored its EHR system nearly three weeks after a ransomware attack forced the one-hospital system to implement downtime procedures.
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A New York health system is fully operational after a thwarted cyberattack caused disruptions Feb. 18.
Censinet, a healthcare risk management company, has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to introduce AI capabilities aimed at strengthening governance, risk and compliance, as well as cybersecurity, in the healthcare sector.
Cybersecurity is a top priority for health systems this year after devastating attacks against large health systems, small hospitals and vendor partners over the last few years. Hacker tactics are evolving and so are health system strategies.
Market Dynamics Compounding Pressures on Health Systems and Vendors Alike
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Russian nationals with operating a ransomware group that hacked a children's hospital and other healthcare providers.