Cybersecurity

New York City has opened a center with more than 280 healthcare, technology and government agency partners to combat cybersecurity threats, according to a July 8 Wall Street Journal report. 

As cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems escalate, hackers and ransomware groups are getting more vocal about their demands and revealing details about their negotiation tactics. 

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched a task force last year that has worked with hundreds of companies involved in the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain to protect development and distribution of vaccines from cybersecurity threats, The Verge reported…

Several ransomware attacks with high publicity, such as the attack on Las Vegas-based University Medical Center, meat supplier JBS and software firm Kaseya, have all been linked with the infamous hacker group REvil.

Kaseya was informed of a major cybersecurity hole in its IT management software in early April, three months before a ransomware group took hostage its information systems in an ongoing attack, The Wall Street Journal reported July 7. 

A ransomware attack on Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode has left more than 1 million people exposed after hackers stole patient files.

An attack on Biloxi, Miss.-based Coastal Family Health Center, Mississippi's fourth-largest community healthcare provider, has exposed 62,342 patients.

Federal authorities are recommending that organizations affected by the July 2 ransomware attack on IT management software company Kaseya implement a slew of protections to remediate the issue. 

Researchers from Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan launched a study to see if Americans were aware their data was being breached, according to a July 1 NextGov report.

The REvil ransomware gang is trying to extort $70 million from IT security management software company Kaseya, The Wall Street Journal reports.