In late July and early August 2024, the healthcare sector faced numerous cyberattacks and data breaches, some of which resulted in operational challenges and significant system downtime. McLaren Health Care institutes downtime procedures following cyberattack McLaren Health Care, a Michigan...
“The number of cyberattacks on the global healthcare sector are simply getting out of control. And so, the questions at large are why hospitals? Why now?” Check Point’s manager of Data Intelligence, Omer Dembinsky, said about the findings. “The short answer is that targeting hospitals ...
U.S. healthcare organizations could be in the crosshairs of a new cyberthreat collective dubbed Royal. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published an analyst note this week detailing the threat and the hacker group’s tactics. Thewarningfrom HHS’s Health Sector Cybersecurity Co...
The Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care systems nationwide earlier this year started when hackers entered a server that lacked a basic form of security: multifactor authentication.
Healthcare systemCyber-physical systems have been extensively utilized in healthcare domains to deliver high-quality patient treatment in multifaceted clinical scenarios. The medical device' heterogeneity involved in these systems (mobile devices and body sensor nodes) introduces enormous attack surfaces and...
Rhysida ransomware cyberthreat actors claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release data on the dark web if Axis does not pay its price. As previously reported,Rhysida emerged in May 2023and is known to target victims around the world. In November 2023, the FBI, the C...
Ascension, a major U.S. health care system with 140 hospitals in 19 states, announced late Thursday that a cyberattack has caused disruptions at some of its hospitals.
healthcare industry remains high,” HC3 said in a May 2023 alert. “Prioritizing security by maintaining awareness of the threat landscape, assessing their situation, and providing staff with tools and resources necessary to prevent a cyberattack remains the best way forward for healthcare ...
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records.
TheUK’s plan— which applies to England, but stresses the need to “work collaboratively” with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — includes identifying parts of the healthcare system where a cyber attack would cause the most harm to patients, and “embedding ...