Tag: healthcare
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Over 17,000 SharePoint Servers Found Exposed Online, 840 Vulnerable to Active 0-Day Attacks
Tags: attack, china, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, government, healthcare, Internet, microsoft, threat, vulnerability, zero-dayA significant cybersecurity crisis has emerged with the discovery of over 17,000 Microsoft SharePoint servers exposed to internet-based attacks, including 840 systems vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability that Chinese threat actors are actively exploiting. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-53770 and dubbed >>ToolShell
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HHS Data Plan Aims to ‘Make Health Technology Great Again’
Voluntary Effort Calls for Standards, Empowering Patients, But What About Privacy?. The Trump administration launched an initiative to improve patient data interoperability, exchange and accessibility throughout the healthcare ecosystem. The effort asks tech firms, healthcare providers and insurers to voluntarily comply with standards and data sharing criteria. Sounds like déjà vu? First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Why rural hospitals are losing the cybersecurity battle
Cyber threats are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, and rural hospitals and clinics are feeling the pressure from all sides: tight budgets, small teams, limited … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/31/rural-healthcare-cybersecurity-challenges/
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Securing the Next Era: Why Agentic AI Demands a New Approach to API Security
I’ve spent my career building solutions to protect the API fabric that powers modern businesses. I founded Salt because I saw that traditional security tools such as WAFs, gateways, and CDNs weren’t designed to see or secure APIs. That gap led to breaches, blind spots, and billions in risk. Today, we’re facing a new wave…
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2 Law Group Data Theft Hacks Affect 282,100 Patients
Firm Admits Paying Ransom in Exchange of Hacker’s Promise to Delete Stolen Info. Two Florida-based law firms with offices in other states are notifying 282,100 people whose healthcare and other information was potentially compromised in separate data theft incidents. One of the firms admitted to paying a ransom to prevent its data from being leaked…
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Cyberattack shuts down hundreds of Russian pharmacies, disrupts healthcare services
The Stolichki pharmacy chain, which operates about 1,000 stores across Russia confirmed that a technical failure that halted its operations on Tuesday was caused by a hack. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cyberattack-shuts-down-russian-pharmacies
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Ransomware upstart Gunra goes cross-platform with encryption upgrades
Tags: attack, breach, control, data, detection, encryption, endpoint, group, healthcare, linux, ransomware, update, vmware, windows-r” or “ratio” parameter. The “-l” or the “limit” parameter is used to control how much of the file gets encrypted. If no value is provided, the entire file is encrypted,” Trend Micro added.Additionally, the variant offers flexible key-storage options for RSA-encrypted keys. Using the “-s” or ““, store” parameter makes the ransomware save each…
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Health System Settles Web Tracker Lawsuit for up to $9.25M
Lawsuit Claims BJC Health Shared Patient Info From MyChart Portal Without Consent. A Missouri healthcare system has agreed to pay up to $9.25 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that its use of online tracking tools in its patient portals transmitted sensitive patient information to third-party firms without the patients’ knowledge or…
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Interlock Ransomware Targets Healthcare in Stealth Attacks, Say U.S. Cyber Agencies
Federal agencies warn of rising Interlock ransomware attacks targeting healthcare and critical sectors using double extortion and advanced social engineering. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/security/interlock-ransomware-healthcare-warning/
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Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack
Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ameos_group_attack/
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Feds Warn Health, Other Sectors of Interlock Threats
Healthcare Providers Are Among Dozens of Entities Hit Since Gang Emerged in 2024. U.S. authorities are warning of threats posed by double-extortion gang Interlock, which has been hitting an assortment of businesses across many industries, including healthcare and other critical infrastructure sectors, with a ransomware variant first seen in September 2024. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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UK government to bring in ransomware payment ban
Critical infrastructure operators, hospitals, local councils and schools will be among those banned from giving in to cyber criminal demands as the UK moves forward with proposals to address the scourge of ransomware First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628013/UK-government-to-bring-in-ransomware-payment-ban
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UK government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers
Tags: attack, computer, cyber, cybercrime, government, hacker, healthcare, international, office, ransom, ransomware, russiaMeasure intended to send message to international cybercriminals ‘that the UK is united in fight against ransomware’The UK government is planning to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to computer hackers, and private companies will be required to inform authorities if they plan to cave into cash demands.The stance, announced on Tuesday by the Home…
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44 Millionen Dollar von Krypto-Börse gestohlen
Cyberattack suspected at El Dorado hospital, part of growing trend targeting medical systems First seen on kwch.com Jump to article: www.kwch.com/2025/07/18/cyberattack-suspected-el-dorado-hospital-part-growing-trend-targeting-medical-systems/
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At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/at-least-750-us-hospitals-faced-disruptions-during-last-years-crowdstrike-outage-study-finds/
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Retail Becomes New Target as Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Slow
Comparitech found that healthcare ransomware attacks rose 4% in H1 2025, a significantly lower rate than the cross-sector average of 50% First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/retail-target-healthcare/
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Cyberangriff auf ein Krankenhaus in Kansas, USA?
Cyberattack suspected at El Dorado hospital, part of growing trend targeting medical systems First seen on kwch.com Jump to article: www.kwch.com/2025/07/18/cyberattack-suspected-el-dorado-hospital-part-growing-trend-targeting-medical-systems/
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Stormous Ransomware gang targets North Country HealthCare, claims 600K patient data stolen
Ransomware group Stormous claims it stole data from 600,000 North Country HealthCare patients across 14 sites in northern Arizona. The Stormous ransomware gang claims it has stolen personal and health data belonging to 600,000 patients from health provider North Country HealthCare. North Country HealthCare is a nonprofit, federally qualified health center (FQHC) based in northern…
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Topsy-Turvy Data Breach Reality: Incidents Up, Victims Down
Most Compromises Trace to Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services. Data breaches rage on. In the first half of this year, the Identity Theft Resource Center counted 1,732 total data breaches affecting 166 million people, marking a rise in data breaches but a decline in victims, likely due to a drop in mega-breaches. First seen on…
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AI Appreciation Day: Celebrating Progress, Embracing Responsibility
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in the fabric of our daily lives, workplaces, and digital infrastructure, AI Appreciation Day presents the perfect opportunity to reflect not only on its transformative power but also the responsibilities that come with it. From cybersecurity to healthcare and beyond, the voices of leading experts in the field…
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Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong
Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/simular_ai_agent_reinforcement/
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Over 5.4 Million Affected in Healthcare Data Breach at Episource
A data breach at Episource has exposed the personal information of 5.4 million individuals after attackers accessed systems for 10 days First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/54-million-affected-episource/
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Why ‘AI Fatigue’ Is Risky to Cyber Leaders and Their Teams
The flood of new artificial intelligence tools, including those to help cybersecurity teams, can overwhelm healthcare CISOs and their security staff, fueling AI fatigue that in itself can create additional cyber risk, said Drew Henderson and Jon Hilton, practice leaders at consulting firm LBMC. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/ai-fatigue-risky-to-cyber-leaders-their-teams-i-5484
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Risk management, legacy tech pose major threats to healthcare firms, report finds
Companies have improved their recovery processes and user controls but still lag in risk preparedness, according to the report. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/healthcare-cybersecurity-risks-report-fortified/753077/
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AI poisoning and the CISO’s crisis of trust
Tags: access, ai, breach, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, disinformation, exploit, framework, healthcare, identity, infosec, injection, LLM, monitoring, network, privacy, RedTeam, resilience, risk, russia, saas, threat, tool, trainingFoundation models began parroting Kremlin-aligned propaganda after ingesting material seeded by a large-scale Russian network known as the “Pravda Network.”A high-profile AI-generated reading list published by two American news outlets included 10 hallucinated book titles mistakenly attributed to real authors.Researchers showed that imperceptible perturbations in training images could trigger misclassification. Researchers in the healthcare domain demonstrated…
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How defenders use the dark web
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, breach, corporate, credit-card, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, dark-web, data, data-breach, email, extortion, finance, fraud, government, group, hacker, healthcare, identity, incident, insurance, intelligence, Internet, interpol, law, leak, lockbit, mail, malware, monitoring, network, phishing, ransom, ransomware, service, software, theft, threat, tool, usa, vpnAttributing attacks to threat actors: When organizations suffer from data breaches and cyber incidents, the dark web becomes a crucial tool for defenders, including the impacted businesses, their legal teams, and negotiators.Threat actors such as ransomware groups often attack organizations to encrypt and steal their data so they can extort them for money, in exchange…
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Top Cyber Struggles of Small, Rural Healthcare Providers
Smaller and rural hospitals and clinics, as well as federally qualified health centers, are constantly battling cybersecurity resource constraints, and especially serious workforce shortages, said Jennifer Stoll of OHINC, a nonprofit provider of health IT services and products. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/top-cyber-struggles-small-rural-healthcare-providers-i-5483