Rochester, N.Y.-based Jordan Health is back online after shutting down its entire network Feb. 27 due to a ransomware attack, according to local NBC affiliate WHEC.
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.
Fayetteville, Ark.-based Ozark Orthopaedics has notified 15,240 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.
Hackers have started to trick people into visiting malicious websites of phony maps displaying the spread of COVID-19 to infect their computers with malware, according to Business Insider.
Everbridge, a global leader in critical event management (CEM), announced on Monday that the company has unveiled new CEM capabilities across the Internet of Things (IoT) for corporate, government and healthcare organizations to protect their people, assets, operations, supply chain and brand from critical events such…
Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Medical Center announced March 11 that it has started notifying an undisclosed number of patients about a phishing attack.
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Hospitals and health systems have seen a 350 percent increase in ransomware attacks during the fourth quarter of 2019 compared to data from the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a Corvus Insurance report.
As healthcare organizations turn to IoT devices, there are more opportunities for cybercriminals to hack into their systems, according to a report from Unit 42 released March 10.
GE Healthcare today introduced a new cybersecurity service offering that brings together medical device expertise, artificial intelligence and process management tools to help hospital groups in their fight against cybersecurity threats.
In a recent phishing scheme, hackers impersonated clinicians and executives at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, according to researchers at Proofpoint, which discovered the cyberattack.
While the rise of cyberattacks has put pressure on healthcare organizations to ramp up security measures, there is still a large gap in the cybersecurity workforce.