The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of the increased use of Conti ransomware after more than 400 attacks on American and international organizations were reported, the organizations said Sept. 22.
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.
A former patient has sued UC San Diego Health claiming the health system took too long to notify patients of a data breach and that it had inadequate cybersecurity measures in place after hackers accessed employee email accounts for four…
A ransomware attack on Berlin, N.H.-based Coos County Family Health Services caused an IT outage and forced some of its clinics to shut down, according to a Sept. 23 Conway Daily Sun report.
Ransomware attacks can be fatal for patients, according to a September report by the Ponemon Institute.
To deter future cyber extortion attacks, the Treasury Department on Sept. 21 sanctioned a Russian-owned cryptocurrency exchange accused of helping launder ransomware payments, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The FBI had the decryption key to unlock hundreds of hospitals and businesses' IT systems held hostage by REvil's ransomware attacks but chose not to since it planned to carry out an attack on the hacker group, according to a…
Carleton-based Family Medical Center of Michigan began notifying patients this month that their financial information was exposed by hackers during a ransomware attack, Monroe News reported Sept. 20.
A Mankato (Minn.) Clinic employee exposed 535 patients' protected health information by mistakenly emailing the data to an external email account, the clinic said in a Sept. 20 notification.
Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking chief information security officers in the last month.
Ransomware group Hive recently stole patients' information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center and posted the data online, St. Louis Public Radio reported Sept. 17.