A Berlin, Maryland-based hospital recently told regulators that a ransomware breach discovered in January had compromised the sensitive information of nearly 137,000 patients, about five times the number of people originally estimated as having been affected by the incident.
Are unsolicited smartwatches the new USB thumb drive? The U.S. Army warns that service members are being sent free wearables preloaded with malware designed to steal data from mobile devices as well as intercept voice communications and hijack cameras.
The number of victims affected by a campaign that targeted a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer product continued to grow as insurer Genworth Financial reported that up to 2.7 million of its customers and agents appear to have been affected by the breach.
Fallout for Progress Software continues as hundreds of private and public sector organizations that use its MOVEit file transfer software face data breaches due to a zero-day attack. Some victims have filed a proposed class action suit in federal court, alleging poor security controls at Progress.
Federal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of an apparent resurgence of TimisoaraHackerTeam after an attack in recent weeks by the obscure ransomware group on a U.S. cancer center. HHS says the group was discovered by security researchers in 2018.
The BlackCat ransomware group has claimed credit for a February phishing attack against Reddit. With no ransom being paid, the extortionists are now seeking to insert themselves into the standoff between Reddit's leadership and volunteer workforce over the introduction of paid access to APIs.
Ransomware actors are using the thing that verifies crypto transactions - mining - to their advantage. More criminals are laundering their ill-gotten gains by re-minting the digital money through mining to sanitize funds and bypass controls imposed by more highly regulated financial institutions.
Cybercriminals are increasingly preying on small hospitals, often in rural communities, knowing that security defenses at these facilities are often much weaker than those at larger institutions, said Kate Pierce, a former longtime CIO and CISO at a 25-bed community hospital in Vermont.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how cyber risk is becoming more closely tied to the economic health of nations, why a rural U.S. healthcare provider is closing due in part to ransomware attack woes, and why some cybersecurity companies have laid off staff this month.
This week, the list of MOVEit victims grew and now includes the U.S. government. Also, CISA and its global peers crowned LockBit the world's top ransomware threat, North Korean hackers copied a popular South Korean web portal, and an impersonation campaign used SEO techniques to target top brands.
Federal officials charged a Russian national with carrying out at least four LockBit attacks against businesses in the United States, Asia, Europe and Africa. The Justice Department said Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 20, of Chechnya, deployed ransomware between August 2020 and March 2023.
A rural Illinois medical system will shut down on Friday partly due to fallout from a 2021 ransomware incident as a wave of extortionate malware exacts rising costs from the healthcare industry. "These problems have no end in sight," said Mike Hamilton of security firm Critical Insight.
The company behind the MOVEit managed file transfer application is urging customers into a new round of emergency patching after identifying additional vulnerabilities. "These newly discovered vulnerabilities are distinct from the previously reported vulnerability," said Progress Software.
An April ransomware attack that compromised the personal information of more than 2.5 million individuals has triggered at least four proposed federal class action lawsuits against Massachusetts health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health and its parent company, Point32Health.
Ransomware hackers are stretching the concept of code reuse to the limit as they confront the specter of diminishing returns for extortionate malware. In their haste to make money, some new players are picking over the discarded remnants of previous ransomware groups.
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