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Grace Atta reports: The Northern Territory health department has backtracked on its claim that only five patients were affected by a privacy breach that led to…
Abbye Alexander, Esq., Henry Norwood, Esq., and Emily Taing, Esq. of Kaufman Dolowich LLP write: Recent caselaw suggests a shift in how courts analyze healthca…
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities.…
Bruce Giles reports: Business services provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle class action litigation over the third-largest healthcare data…
A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian c…
NY’s Attorney General and CT’s Attorney General held both a provider and its IT company liable for a data breach. The settlement also includes a corrective act…
The Belarusian Cyber Partisans concurred with Russian research that they indeed spent months inside the network for the Moscow Department of Health.
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the…
Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the health…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achi…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a security flaw impacting NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect to its Known Exploi…
Security researchers have disclosed almost a dozen security flaws impacting the GE HealthCare Vivid Ultrasound product family that could be exploited by malici…
Let's begin with a thought-provoking question: among a credit card number, a social security number, and an Electronic Health Record (EHR), which commands the …
State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U…
The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason…
A recent wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player.Gootkit, als…
FBI has recently issued a detailed alert about the Hive ransomware that is actively targeting…FBI Alerts About Hive Ransomware Amidst Rising Attacks On Healthc…
The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing o…
As hospitals around the world are struggling to respond to the coronavirus crisis, cybercriminals'with no conscience and empathy'are continuously targeting hea…
Once again, cybercriminals have proved their indifference to morality by exploiting the panic and hype for the horrifying Coronavirus epidemicWorld Health Orga…
Researchers have discovered six different critical MDhex vulnerabilities, in medical devices. These vulnerabilities, upon exploitation, could allow an adversar…
A British man suspected to be a member of 'The Dark Overlord,' an infamous international hacking group, has finally been extradited to the United States after …
A new variant of Vega ransomware family, dubbed Zeppelin, has recently been spotted in the wild targeting technology and healthcare companies across Europe, th…
UpGuard provides another entry for our “No need to hack when it’s leaking” files. This time, it’s Liberating Research. On August 31, Greg Pollock from UpGuard …