Vitry-Le-Francois and Saint Dizier are the two hospital networks whose data has been compromised and were being threatened to pay up $13m as ransom. The IT systems in both the healthcare service providing firms were down and remained unavailable for booking new appointments. Good news is that...
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Two British teens part of the LAPSUS$ cyber crime and extortion gang have been sentenced for their roles in orchestrating a string of high-profile attacks against a number of companies. Arion Kurtaj, an 18-year-old from Oxford, has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order due to his ...
In his view, virtual patching is one of the most important actions a hospital should take to protect the organization against cyberattacks. To begin doing this, providers must realize that a hospital is always vulnerable and they won’t be able to patch at-risk systems that can be hacked ev...
Today, better cybersecurity isn’t optional; it’s more essential than ever. In healthcare, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure The best way for hospitals to minimize the impact of cyberattacks is to reduce the risk of them happening in the first place. Some strategies ...
As we saw from the Wannacry outbreak, cyber-attacks can have devastating effects for providers. It’s not just limited to the challenges associated with quickly and efficiently recovering systems and data, which is a given; it’s the disruption to hospital operations and critical patient services...
Just this February, a California hospital paid nearly $100,000 to a ransomware attacker. With attacks like these plaguing the community, the British government unveiled that it plans to spend £1.9 billion ($2.3 billion) on enhancing cybersecurity. As the internet continues to grow its impact...
Two examples of such attacks are: Advanced phishing. Because GenAI can integrate a vast amount of data, it can make emails and other communications sound much more like a real person, thereby increasing their believability. Deepfakes. GenAI can take samples of an individual’s voice found on ...
Cyberattack on hospital chain causes chaos A major ransomware attack affected 30 hospitals and more than 200 health care sites across six states. CBS News homeland security and justice reporter Nicole Sganga looks at what happened to some patients. Nov 29, 2023 03:07 Today is the last da...
As the resurgence of COVID-19 casesstretch hospital capacityto the limit, it provides a fresh reminder of just how critical it is for our health care infrastructure to be resilient in times of crises. With thesharp uptickin ransomware attacks on health care organizations during the pandemic —...