Cybersecurity

New Orleans-based LCMC Health partnered with IT company Sapphire Health to use Amazon Web Services to deploy a ransomware recovery tool to the health system's Epic EHR. 

Russell Springs, Ky.-based Russell County Hospital's board approved $2.5 million in funding for a cybersecurity upgrade, WJRS News reported March 1. 

Russian-based MedusaLocker ransomware group is upping its tactics and the HHS is warning healthcare organizations to "holistically require" multiple levels of access and authentication controls to defend against this group. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems said about 1 million of its patients may have been affected by a recent data breach.

The FBI says healthcare suffered more ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2022, though the agency may have helped stop more, BankInfoSecurity reported 

Russian hacking group Killnet, which disrupted hospital and health system websites across the U.S. in February, might be behind an attack on nine Danish hospitals, The Register reported Feb. 28. 

An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara's lab services was uploaded to an Adobe Acrobat website. 

The February cyberattack on Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare will be "credit negative" for the health system, Moody's said in a Feb. 27 report.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used for years to help hospitals and health systems combat cybersecurity threats, but with hackers getting more sophisticated, chief information security officers say AI will need to make improvements to its algorithms and…

A lawsuit alleges that Lubbock (Texas) Heart & Surgical Hospital had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a July data breach compromised the protected health information of 23,379 current and former patients, Class Action reported Feb. 24.