On April 22, Google's ThreatAnalysis Group reported more than a dozen government-backed attackers are using COVID-19-themed emails for phishing and malware attempts.
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Microsoft and Imprivata are collaborating on new digital identity projects for use in the healthcare space.
Hackers published almost 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and others working to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Washington Post.
In a one-week period, Google Cloud's machine learning models blocked 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 scams, according to a recent company blog post.
Hospital executives are working day and night to keep staff safe and update operations to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including chief information security officers.
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Big tech organizations on April 20 asked Congress to provide more funding to states for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus stimulus bill, according to The Hill.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the FBI have issued warnings about cyberattackers targeting hospitals and health systems during the pandemic.
Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health last week notified about 112,000 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a data security incident.
Americans are divided on whether the government should use smartphone data to track the spread of COVID-19, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine began notifying 14,795 oncology patients March 31 of a phishing attack.