Healthcare It News
JANUARY 19, 2023
Nearly half of healthcare provider respondents (45%) said ransomware attacks increased complications from medical procedures, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute. That's up from 36% in 2021. They also found that it helped them to respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 5, 2022
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a list of the top malware strains identified in 2021. In recent years there has been a major increase in the use of ransomware. Ransomware encrypts files on targeted systems to prevent data access, and a ransom demand is issued for the keys to unlock the encryption.
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HIPAA Journal
JUNE 14, 2023
Ransomware attacks can cause healthcare facilities to temporarily close and small healthcare practices have made the decision not to reopen after a ransomware attack, but hospitals and health systems are usually financially resilient enough to remediate the attacks and recover, but not St. Margaret’s Health in 1903, and in 2021, St.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 6, 2022
An affiliate of the infamous Netwalker ransomware gang has been sentenced to serve 20 years in jail for his role in ransomware attacks on entities in the United States. The gang also stepped up attacks on the sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. While awaiting sentencing, Vachon-Desjardins was also sentenced to serve 4.5
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 26, 2021
"In a healthcare system in 2021, data really serves as the basis for how decisions are made and how care is delivered," said Kimberly McManus, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the VA's Office of Information and Technology, during a symposium this week. One such issue is interoperability.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 22, 2022
A new report from Comcast Business indicates 2021 was another record-breaking year for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. million DDoS attacks were reported in 2021, which is a 14% increase from 2019, although slightly lower than the previous year when 10.1 Multi-vector attacks increased by 47% in 2021.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 10, 2023
ENISA mapped healthcare cyber incidents between January 2021 and March 2023 and identified the key targets of attacks, the threat actors behind them, attack trends, and the impact that cyberattacks have on the health sector. Throughout the study period, ransomware posed the biggest threat. 10% of attacks had an ideological motivation.
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