HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

It has been more than 5 weeks since Change Healthcare suffered a Blackcat ransomware attack. billion has been provided to safety net hospitals and federally qualified health centers that serve high-risk patients and communities. Department of State Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on ALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware Group The U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries. Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2023

Mike Hamilton, Founder and CISO of Critical Insight To stop ransomware terrorists from locking up our Nation’s hospitals, the Federal Government is pushing patient-focused entities to align with a standard. It means more work for hospitals, but it’s necessary. Negative publicity matters, significantly.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The indictments of multiple members of the TrickBot/Conti Ransomware groups have recently been unsealed and 11 members of these cybercriminal operations have been sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom. government and other U.S. government and other U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. Worse yet, attacks on hospitals have turned deadly. As we head into 2022, it is likely we will see an increase in both the sheer number of attacks on hospitals as well as severity.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Over the Labor Day weekend, Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, TX, suffered a ransomware attack. Daixin Team is a relatively new threat group that is known to attack hospitals. In June 2022, the group conducted an attack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri and stole and published files containing sensitive patient data.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

Warnings have been issued by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) about a social engineering campaign that targets IT helpdesk at U.S. The AHA was first made aware of the campaign in January 2024 and issued a warning to hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2022

If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A little while back the government put out a cybersecurity advisory about an “imminent cybercrime threat” that was targeting hospitals using Ryuk ransomware.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2021

There’s no sugarcoating it: healthcare has a serious ransomware problem. In fact, the first-ever such attack targeted the industry in 1989 when 20,000 floppy disks infected with ransomware were given to those who attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS Conference. And it’s not a new problem for this sector. An ongoing effort.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2024

Cyberattacks have been reported by Pembina County Memorial Hospital, Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, and Rancho Family Medical Group. The forensic investigation and document review took almost a year, with the hospital stating in its breach notice that those processes were not completed until March 4, 2024.

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

government has charged three Iranian nationals with a scheme to commit ransomware attacks on healthcare facilities and other organizations, including a thwarted attack on Boston Children's Hospital, the Justice Department said Sept.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New York Governor Kathy Hochul stresses the importance of increased hospital cybersecurity, proposing tighter regulations. New York has already set aside $500 million for compliance efforts that hospitals across the state can apply to receive a share of. Executives at large hospitals, such as Northwell Health, have already commented.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 22, 2023

New bipartisan legislation has recently been introduced to help address the current shortage of cybersecurity skills at rural hospitals. The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act was introduced by Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A new report from Chainalysis has revealed victims of ransomware attacks paid hackers $1.1 These are also conservative figures, as the researchers are unaware of all of the cryptocurrency wallets used by ransomware gangs. The researchers believe this anomaly is linked to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. The particular ransomware attack made prime and backups inoperable.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health. Cyberattacks are happening almost every day, which has led to the federal government mandating Zero Trust architecture across agencies. Unaware for nearly a year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Stone, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs at Rubrik In early August, a ransomware attack disrupted operations across its network of 17 hospitals and more than 165 clinics in four states and forced some to rely on paper records. Regulatory compliance is and likely always will be core to the mission.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. Since 2018, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations alone have cost the global economy $92 billion in downtime.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. There may be need for organisational, financial and governance changes to drive this change internally and through the ecosystem. 'Break ” Preparing for cyber-attacks.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While the program won’t be implemented until the end of 2024 at the earliest and, as currently proposed, will cover only consumer-grade IoT devices, the government taking an active stance in establishing IoT security standards is significant. This is why such government initiatives are so welcome.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 10, 2023

With that increase, healthcare rose to become the third most attacked industry globally behind the government/military with 1,661 attacks a week (+46%) and education/research with 2,314 attacks a week (+43%). There were notable changes in the threat landscape in 2022, especially concerning ransomware attacks.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2023

Ransomware and phishing continue to be the biggest cybersecurity concerns for healthcare organizations according to the February 2023 Current and Emerging Healthcare Cyber Threat Landscape report from Health-ISAC. Ransomware was the biggest concern for 2022 and 2023 with phishing and spear phishing in second.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Scott Lundstrom, Senior Healthcare Strategist at OpenText Cybersecurity Accelerated move to zero trust: The healthcare industry is struggling against a dramatic increase in malware and ransomware attacks. Hospitals initially will focus on improved identity management, authentication, continuous verification, and fine-grained access controls.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It also makes data more easily accessible for practitioners and hospital administration staff. In addition to creating operational efficiencies, AI can help eliminate human error in managing data and improve data compliance and governance. Ransomware continues to be a scourge on the healthcare industry. AI can help.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Growing patient discomfort in sharing health information Beyond health system disruptions such as ransomware that can compromise patient data , cybercriminals are increasingly going after individual patients. It's somebody they know, somebody they know of or somebody prominent in the community that is hospitalized.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2021

This is particularly important, he said, given that patient safety can be on the line – as we've seen with the fallout and continued disruption from high-profile ransomware cases over the last year. Ransomware attacks have even been linked to a patient's death in Germany. "Cybersecurity is a patient safety issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The data is also necessary in order to maintain services to patients, so when a cybercriminal uses ransomware and makes that data unavailable, healthcare entities struggle to provide necessary care for patients. The cost of allowing a data breach to occur can cause an exponential financial impact on an organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

who co-chaired the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (which issued a 200-page report offering more than 80 recommendations toward a multi-layered national cyber defense strategy), said the federal government has to do much more. " So there has to be a much closer connection between the private sector and the government, he said.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It has repercussions on patients, doctors, hospitals, and everything associated with the healthcare ecosystem. The key challenges faced by the industry include Data Breaches, Ransomware, Extensive use of Mobile Applications without proper ways to perform Authentication and Authorization and Lack of Healthcare Data Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This has also spurred massive government funding to close the broadband gap (the digital divide) and provide connectivity to unconnected or underserved communities. . DDoS attacks, which are often combined with ransomware, have surged in the last couple years, and now comprise over half of all security incidents.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2023

Hospitals, doctors and other care providers need to have as much data and information readily available to use to treat patients and save lives; while at the same time keeping this sensitive information secure. This is especially true when it comes to ransomware attacks. At the same time, human lives are increasingly at risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ransomware also leads to significant disruptions in patient care, with 64% of organizations reporting procedure or test delays as a direct result, and 59% citing extended patient stays. Governments are starting to act in response to the growing amount of cyber threats in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

For the 21st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Drex DeFord, Former CIO and Executive Healthcare Strategist at Crowdstrike. In this ripped from the headlines episode, we talk about two major security breaches that impacted healthcare in a massive way.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2023, we expect healthcare cyberattacks to not only spill over to medical devices – as was the case for several ransomware incidents in the past few years – but even start to target them directly, though this would require attacker motivation to purposefully target devices that could directly harm people.

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