A man reportedly affiliated with North Korean military intelligence has been allegedly participating in a scheme to hack into U.S. healthcare systems.
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.
APT45, a North Korean cyber operator, has continued to target the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, a July 25 report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant found.
Jeffrey Ferranti, MD, chief digital officer of Duke University Health System, was awakened in the early morning hours of July 19 with a text that the computers at his hospitals were down. His first thought: ransomware attack.
A company that provides bill collection services for Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health fell victim to a cyberattack.
Thirty-nine healthcare providers and the National Community Pharmacists Association are suing UnitedHealth Group over the Change Healthcare hack, claiming they have not financially recovered from the cyberattack.
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America needs a "cyber dome" to protect against the increasing number of cyberattacks that are plaguing healthcare, according to nine former HHS and Veterans Affairs secretaries.
A cyberattack compromised three employee email accounts at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, which led to about 56,953 individuals being personally notified.
Several employees of New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got tricked by an email phishing scam after a hacker took over one of their co-worker's accounts.
Hospitals and health systems continue to recover from a July 18 IT issue disrupting service for some Microsoft customers.
A global cyber outage that disrupted industries including healthcare, aviation and the media July 19 shows how interconnected IT systems are and the reliance on third-party vendors, health system leaders say.