When a large hospital in an urban area is shut down by ransomware, the disruption can be significant, but when a rural hospital faces a similar cyber outage, the impact on patient safety and the community can be extreme, said Nitin Natarajan of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Despite heavy security investments, banks still struggle with basic security issues such as default passwords, vendor vulnerabilities and social engineering scams. Scott Weinberg, CEO of Neovera, shares a new report that shows banks of all sizes still grapple with these common risks.
It's crucial for healthcare sector organizations to vet their artificial intelligence tech vendors in the same robust way they scrutinize the privacy and security practices of all their other third-party suppliers, said attorney Linda Malek of the law firm Crowell & Moring.
Ransomware gang BianLian has listed Boston Children's Health Physicians - a pediatric group that practices in New York and Connecticut - on its dark web site, threatening to release stolen patient and employee data. The practice said the September incident involved an IT vendor.
UnitedHealth Group has raised its estimates to nearly $2.9 billion for the total costs this fiscal year of the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare IT services unit. UHG said it is also working to catch up with claims processing and to win back clients disenfranchised by the attack.
A Texas-based revenue cycle management firm is notifying about 400,000 individuals of a hacking incident it says originated with another third party. The incident is among a growing list of major breaches implicating vendors and cumulatively affecting tens of millions of patients so far this year.
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At the recent Cybersecurity Summit: Canada East, hosted by Information Security Media Group, cybersecurity leaders, industry experts and top executives discussed the surge in ransomware attacks, the integration of AI into security frameworks and growing personal liability concerns for CISOs.
Thousands of online stores running Adobe Commerce and Magento software have been hacked since the summer and infected with digital payment skimmers by attackers targeting a vulnerability known as CosmicSting. While patched by Adobe in June, users also need to forcibly invalidate stolen credentials.
While the number of ransomware attacks stayed about the same in the past year, cybercriminals are using more effective tactics such as weaponizing breach disclosure deadlines to extract higher ransoms, according to ENISA's 2024 Threat Landscape report.
Rackspace confirmed that criminals exploited a zero day vulnerability in a ScienceLogic third-party application, forcing the cloud-hosting provider to take monitoring dashboards offline. ScienceLogic confirmed it issued a patch for the zero-day remote code execution vulnerability.
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A North Korean hacking group with a history of a stealing cryptocurrency is likely behind a raft of poisoned Python packages targeting developers working on the Linux and macOS operating systems in an apparent attempt at a supply chain attack.
Recent mega data breaches involving third-party vendors - such as the Change Healthcare cyberattack - are intensifying the spotlight on critical security risk management and governance issues for business associates and other suppliers, said regulatory attorney Rachel Rose.
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