Cybersecurity

The FBI opened a 22,000-square-foot simulated town on its Redstone Arsenal campus in Huntsville, Ala., that includes a fully wired mock hospital agents use to train for ransomware response and other cyber investigations. The Kinetic Cyber Range, operated by the…

Arlington, Va.-based VHC Health has been affected by a data breach involving one of its vendors, Xsolis. Xsolis, a vendor that provides case and utilization management services to healthcare organizations, became aware Jan. 22 of unauthorized activity affecting a limited…

In healthcare, a cyberattack is a patient safety crisis as well as an IT problem. As the frequency and sophistication of cyber threats continue to escalate, the organizations tasked with protecting hospitals and health systems have never been more critical. …

Montgomery, Ala.-based Jackson Hospital detected “suspicious activity” June 8 in its computer network and has opened an investigation into the incident. The investigation, which involves third-party cybersecurity and digital forensic specialists, appears to be a limited event with no data…

At least 20 healthcare organizations have reported data breaches affecting 100,000 or more individuals to federal regulators so far in 2026, according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal. The 2026 breaches are already approaching last year’s totals.…

Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is seeking information from New York City officials about a February cybersecurity incident that affected NYC Health + Hospitals and potentially exposed sensitive patient data. In…

A Michigan federal judge has blocked Munson Healthcare’s attempt to transfer two class-action data breach lawsuits to Missouri, where dozens of similar cases against Oracle Health are consolidated. Chief Judge Hala Jarbou of the Western District of Michigan denied Munson’s…

Health system leaders told Becker’s they’re encouraged by AI developer Anthropic opening up its Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative to healthcare, though the participant list remains largely unnamed. The company launched the project in April after opting not to publicly release…

Anthropic is adding 150 new organizations to Project Glasswing, its program to find and fix security vulnerabilities in critical software. The expansion, announced June 2, grows a program that began in early April with about 50 partners using Claude Mythos…

The Cybersecurity Working Group of the Health Sector Coordinating Council has published a guide to help hospitals and health systems manage AI-related cyber threats. The report addresses a range of threats, from traditional, reactive, machine-learning tactics to agentic AI systems…