Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.
Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.
While all ransomware attacks against organizations can be devastating, hospitals offer an additional layer of potential harm in that the lives of patients can be put at risk. Experts ...
Cybercriminals are making millions by holding the data of healthcare institutions hostage until they get paid.
Ransomware attacks targeting hospitals have exacted a human cost as well as financial.
FBI warns U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers of imminent cybercrime threats; 5 important safeguards to take now
A “brazen” gang of eastern European cybercriminals has hit more than three US hospitals with ransomware this week, attacks which have prompted the hospital to reroute ambulances and ...
Universal Health Services Inc., which operates more than 400 hospitals and other clinical care facilities, said in a short statement posted to its website Monday that its network was ...
Ad hoc COVID-19 medical centers have a unique set of vulnerabilities: They're remote, they sit outside of a defense-in-depth architecture and the very nature of their purpose – care in a ...
Steve Giles was having dinner in the Los Angeles area on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, when he received an ominous phone call. The computer networks of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, the ...
Private hospital operator Fresenius has suffered a Snake ransomware attack, while a pair of U.S.-based plastic surgery clinics were infected with Maze.
Universal Health Services Inc., one of the largest healthcare services providers in the U.S., fell victim to a cyberattack Sunday that has crippled its IT network. As the organization deals ...
Prosecutors believe the woman died from delayed treatment after hackers attacked a hospital’s computers. It could be the first fatality from a ransomware attack.
A surge in cyberattacks on medical facilities during the pandemic has alarmed national governments. The potential consequences were highlighted last week with the death of a woman after she ...
Cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of extortion attempts designed especially to lock up hospital information systems
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.
Experts say cybercriminals, likely from eastern Europe, perhaps with Kremlin ties, are seeking money as COVID surges but aren't targeting election systems.
Several hospitals across the United States have been targeted in ransomware attacks in what appears to be an escalation and expansion of similar attacks previously launched on other ...
The ransomware - Ryuk - scrambles data and demands money to decode it again.
Unlike earlier in the year, most hospitals are not proactively canceling elective surgeries, even in some places seeing spikes in coronavirus patients.