Several healthcare ransomware attacks have occurred over the past few months. Healthcare ransomware attacks occur when hackers access a healthcare organization’s patient data, demanding a sum [...]
Predictably, cyberattackers have figured out how to take advantage of public fear over coronavirus. Cyberattackers have developed new coronavirus email scams that literally threaten the life of the victim. [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 38 March healthcare breaches, affecting 828,921 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 breaches [...]
Phishing emails target recipients by posing as trusted entities, with the purpose of accessing the recipient's email account. Hackers have become sophisticated in drafting such emails, with 90% of cyberattacks [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 39 February healthcare breaches, affecting 1,531,855 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 26 breaches [...]
There have been recent reports of hackers posing as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to bait people into clicking on phishing emails. [...]
Ransomware attacks are the most common type of malware incident in the healthcare industry, with 85% of all malware incidents classified as ransomware. A ransomware attack occurs when a [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 breaches [...]
A former employee of ACM Global Laboratories, part of Rochester Regional Health, is being accused of continuously accessing a co-worker’s protected health information (PHI) without authorization. [...]
At the end of 2019, Black Book Market Research conducted a study, surveying 2,876 security professionals from 733 healthcare provider organizations, to determine trends in security breaches in healthcare. [...]
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