The Justice Department has charged Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov on allegations of deploying LockBit ransomware on computer systems in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
In 2021, when Scripps Mercy Hospital of San Diego was hit with a ransomware attack, it caused ripple effects to nearby hospitals, including UC San Diego Health, which had to see an influx of patients as they got diverted to…
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is raising the alarm on TimisoaraHackerTeam, a newer and relatively unknown ransomware group that targeted a U.S. cancer center in June.
St. Louis-based Ascension is facing a lawsuit for allegedly taking employees' fingerprints without their consent, Law360 reported June 16.
Nate Couture, chief information security officer of the Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network, said rural hospitals' compensation for cybersecurity talent is much lower than other industries, making it harder to fill roles, GovInfoSecurity reported June 14.
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Insider threats, which include healthcare employees who abuse their access rights to steal patient data to commit identity theft and financial fraud, have affected three hospitals and health systems.
MercyOne, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is facing a lawsuit for a May data breach in which an unauthorized party accessed its network, compromising the protected health information of 20,000 patients, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported June 15.
The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act made it out of committee and will now head to the Senate floor.
Several security guards from Yakima (Wash.) Valley Memorial Hospital inappropriately used the hospital's EHR system to obtain access to medical records of 419 patients.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Health System are notifying patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised due to hackers targeting a software vulnerability called MOVEit, The Baltimore Banner reported June 14.