Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Berlin, Md.-based Atlantic General Hospital is back to full operations following a Jan. 29 ransomware attack, the hospital reported on its website.

Signs of a new data extortion technique show threat actors may leverage Exmatter to destroy, rather than encrypt data, which could create delays in care delivery and data recovery

As hospitals deal with increasingly sophisticated ransomware and cybercriminal organizations, medical devicemakers are working to protect their devices from hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 13.

Dover, N.H.-based Garrison Women's Health, a part of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, is notifying patients that some of their confidential information was exposed after an unauthorized party accessed its technology service provider, Global Network Systems. 

Researchers at Sentinel Labs have discovered another fraudulent Google ad campaign that attempts to steal Amazon Web Services login information, Techradar reported Feb. 10.

More than 3.3 million patients were affected by a ransomware attack at a southern California medical group.

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is admitting that sensitive patient information was stolen in a December ransomware attack that caused the hospital to divert patients, nj.com reported Feb. 10.

IT systems are still down at Berlin, Md.-based Atlantic General Hospital following a Jan. 29 ransomware attack, Ocean City (Md.) Today reported.

Several health systems have faced lawsuits regarding data breach incidents. Here are is how much five health systems are paying to dispute them:

Google Cloud has joined the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center's threat operations center and will work with the organization to develop an open sourced integration that connects the Health-ISAC Indicator Threat Sharing feed directly into Google Cloud's Chronicle Security…