Seventy-four percent of healthcare organizations were affected by a third-party breach in the previous 24 months, yet many still struggle to monitor vendors after they are approved, a June 1 report from KLAS Research found. Based on interviews with 46…
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.
The American Hospital Association and Illinois Health and Hospital Association are urging the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in a website-tracking lawsuit against Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as Edward-Elmhurst Health. In…
House Republican leaders are calling on FBI Director Kash Patel to act aggressively to stop cybercriminal groups targeting the healthcare industry. In a May 28 letter to Mr. Patel, the lawmakers pointed to the sharp increase in healthcare ransomware attacks…
Hospitals and health systems face a growing cyberattack surface because of the increasing use of largely autonomous agentic AI. Here are five updates: 1. As the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center reported May 26: “Cyber risk is no longer…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare patients are among approximately 22,500 individuals whose information was accessed after an unauthorized third party gained entry to payment accounts on Connecticut’s Medicaid provider portal. The incident involved the HUSKY Medicaid provider portal, which is administered by…
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A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital alleges the health system disclosed patients’ protected health information to Google and other third parties through tracking technologies embedded on its website. The lawsuit, filed May 20 in the U.S.…
The Silent Ransom Group has been posing as IT employees to gain access to organizations’ devices and networks, targeting industries including healthcare, the FBI warned. The threat actors, who have been active since at least 2022 and don’t use encryption,…
The biggest roadblock to digital health’s future isn’t patient adoption or EHR interoperability. According to Ryan Cameron, executive vice president and chief information and innovation officer at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, its identity management and the window to get ahead…
Microsoft has disrupted a cyber threat actor that targeted industries including healthcare, the tech giant said. In May, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, in partnership with Resecurity, interrupted Fox Fox Tempest’s malware-signing-as-a-service, which cybercriminals have employed to distribute malicious code, according…
Health system CIOs are eagerly watching the development of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, an yet-to-be-publicly-released AI model that can detect and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The AI startup decided not to launch the new version of Claude because of those cybersecurity concerns,…