The HHS urged Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway users to check that their systems are not vulnerable to a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, which is being actively exploited by Chinese hackers and other state-sponsored hacking groups.
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.
From EHR shutdowns to employees breaching patient records, here are seven health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity incident since Dec. 1:
The healthcare sector is on track to meet or exceed the more than 50.4 million patient records that were breached in 2021.
Sixty-six percent of cybersecurity professionals reported feeling burnout in 2022, according to a recent survey, VentureBeat reported Dec. 16.
CMS said a ransomware attack on a subcontractor may have affected as many as 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries and breached such personal data as Social Security numbers and bank account numbers.
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An employee at Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare inappropriately accessed 1,600 patient records from December 2020 to December 2021.
Patients rallied in front of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., over IT outages and delayed prescriptions there, News 12 in New Jersey reported Dec. 15.
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, is warning healthcare organizations to be on the lookout for the BlackCat ransomware variant.
HHS issued a brief Dec. 12 warning healthcare organizations about the cybersecurity risks associated with ransomware group LockBit 3.0.
Banning, Calif.-based San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital said patient data was accessed during a recent cybersecurity incident at the facility.