Tag: healthcare
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Hackers steal patient and billing data from German hospitals via third-party provider
The large-scale data breach reportedly hit Unimed, a company that handles billing services for privately insured and self-paying patients on behalf of numerous German hospitals. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hackers-steal-patient-billing-data-german-hospitals
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Why Smaller Healthcare Providers Remain Easy Targets
Recent Hacks Underscore Persistent and Growing Threats to Smaller Organizations. Small and mid-sized healthcare organizations – including medical specialty practices and regional clinics – continue to fall victim disproportionately to hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks and data thefts – affecting large populations of patients. Why does this keep happening? First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Public NYC Health System Notifying 1.8M of Hack
Incident Involved an Unnamed Third-Party Vendor. New York City’s municipal healthcare system is notifying nearly 2 million patients of a hacking incident discovered earlier this year involving a third-party vendor. The breach compromised a long list of information, including biometric data such as fingerprints. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/public-nyc-health-system-notifying-18m-hack-a-31726
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Report: Mythos-Like AI Tools Raising Healthcare Cyber Stakes
Déjà Vu: Is Mythos in Hands of Bad Actors Akin to Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel Abuse?. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and similarly powerful artificial intelligence tools pose elevated cyber risk to the healthcare sector, warns a new report. Addressing the onslaught of newly discovered bugs will require healthcare organizations to evolve their vulnerability mindsets. First seen…
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NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics, including fingerprints, in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/nyc-health-and-hospitals-says-hackers-stole-medical-data-and-fingerprints-during-breach-affecting-at-least-1-8-million-people/
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NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics, including fingerprints, in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/nyc-health-and-hospitals-says-hackers-stole-medical-data-and-fingerprints-during-breach-affecting-at-least-1-8-million-people/
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How Organizations Are Strengthening Defenses Against Scattered Spider
An On Demand video from ID Dataweb. Scattered Spider continues to evolve, and organizations across financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, and other sectors are strengthening defenses against increasingly sophisticated identity-driven threats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/how-organizations-are-strengthening-defenses-against-scattered-spider-a-31660
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Why Hospitals Must Rethink Cyber Resilience
In the face of relentless cyberattacks that threaten patient safety, hospitals must strengthen their resilience, with clinical continuity, secure backups and coordinated recovery emerging as critical strategies, said John Riggi of the American Hospital Association and Josh Howell of Rubrik. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/hospitals-must-rethink-cyber-resilience-i-5547
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Healthcare Data Breach: Cybercriminals Attacked Health Insurance Agency in Ecuador
First seen on resecurity.com Jump to article: www.resecurity.com/blog/article/healthcare-data-breach-cybercriminals-attacked-health-insurance-agency-in-ecuador
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The Privacy Risks of Embedded, Shadow AI in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence that is embedded in newer editions of software and other technology tools but is not explicitly revealed by vendors is a substantial risk on par with shadow AI, said regulatory attorney Elizabeth Hodge with the law firm Akerman LLP. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/privacy-risks-embedded-shadow-ai-in-healthcare-i-5546
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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LuxSci Launches Enterprise-Grade HIPAA-Compliant Email Security for Mid-Sized Healthcare Organizations
Cambridge, MA, May 5th, 2026, CyberNewswire New right-sized offering brings advanced encryption, easy API integration, and HITRUST-certified compliance to the most underserved segment in healthcare email, with pricing starting at $99/month LuxSci, a leading provider of HIPAA compliant secure healthcare communications, today announced the launch of LuxSci Secure High Volume Email for mid-sized healthcare […]…
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LuxSci Launches Enterprise-Grade HIPAA-Compliant Email Security for Mid-Sized Healthcare Organizations
Cambridge, MA, 5th May 2026, CyberNewswire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/luxsci-launches-enterprise-grade-hipaa-compliant-email-security-for-mid-sized-healthcare-organizations/
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NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
Healthcare giant’s maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/nhs_to_closesource_hundreds_of_repos/
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Feds Indict Ex-Hospital Pharmacist for Spying on Co-Workers
Defendant Is Also at Center of a Civil Class Action Against His Former Employer. A federal grand jury has indicted a former Maryland hospital pharmacist, alleging he weaponized tech tools – including keylogging – to steal credentials and spy on nearly 200 co-workers and other individuals over an eight-year period. The defendant is also the…
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How Mythos Signals Cybersecurity Disruption
Tags: access, ai, attack, banking, browser, business, cybersecurity, data, exploit, finance, government, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, open-source, risk, software, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayWhat is Mythos Mythos is Anthropic’s latest AI model, and it is stirring up a tornado of concern in cybersecurity circles. Even before its release, Mythos discovered thousands of new sensitive vulnerabilities in commercial and open-source software, including all major operating systems and web browsers. One was in existence for over 27 years without the industry…
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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg’s investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users’ information with advertisers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/
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Are Hospital Attacks ‘Terrorism,’ Patient Deaths ‘Murder’?
Experts Weigh How the US Could Raise the Stakes for Would-Be Attackers. As ransomware attacks on hospitals continue to disrupt patient care and sometimes contribute to serious patient harm, policymakers are increasingly debating whether the U.S. should treat such incidents as acts of terrorism – and even pursue homicide charges when a patient death occurs.…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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AI Finds 38 Security Flaws in Electronic Health Record Platform
Flaws in OpenEMR’s platform, used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers, enabled database compromise, remote code execution, and data theft. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/ai-finds-38-security-flaws-openemr
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A Quarter of Healthcare Organizations Report Medical Device Cyber-Attacks
RunSafe report reveals most attacks on medical devices disrupt patient care First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/quarter-healthcare-medical-device/
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Researchers Find 38 Flaws in OpenEMR. They’ve Been Fixed
AI Tool Used to Discover Bugs, Which Included 2 Maximum Severity Vulnerabilities. Researchers at security firm AISLE said they recently identified 38 vulnerabilities, including two maximum-severity zero-day flaws in OpenEMR, an open-source electronic medical record software platform used by about 100,000 healthcare providers globally. OpenEMR has patched the problems. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Protecting Michigan’s Patients: The State’s Healthcare CISOs
Michigan’s healthcare sector is one of the most complex in the Midwest, spanning academic medical centers, regional health systems, long-term care, and the statewide associations that set the security standards many smaller organizations depend on. The leaders in this feature are not working in comparable environments. They are securing a $500 million long-term care operator,…The…
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The Bluegrass State’s Security Leaders: Kentucky CISOs to Know
Kentucky’s cybersecurity leadership spans government, academic medicine, community healthcare, manufacturing technology, banking, and global software platforms. The CISOs in this feature have built programs inside environments as different as a city government and a Fortune-level enterprise acquisition, but they share a common thread: careers shaped by the specific demands of the institutions and industries Kentucky…The…
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Poor Risk Analysis Cost 4 Firms $1.7 Million in HIPAA Fines
HHS OCR Breach Investigators Again Find All-Too-Common Risk Analysis Failures. Faulty or non-existent security risk analyses cost a medical imaging provider, a women’s healthcare group, a health plan and a third-party insurance administrator a collective $1.7 million in fines after federal regulators concluded they didn’t do enough to prevent ransomware attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…