Michigan's largest federally qualified health center, which treats homeless and underserved patients, is notifying more than 184,000 individuals of a December ransomware attack that compromised their data. The incident reflects the many challenges that under-resourced healthcare groups face.
The aftershocks of the Change Healthcare cyberattack are still reverberating through the healthcare sector nearly 60 days into the recovery process. But on Tuesday, members of Congress and industry experts grappled with how to avoid a future replay - minus a key witness: UnitedHealth Group.
Financially motivated hackers are using the oldie-but-goodie technique of hiding malicious code in digital images to target businesses in Latin America, say security researchers. One image containing a PowerShell script results in Agent Tesla being loaded on the victim computer.
A global law firm that provides data breach legal services has agreed to an $8 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action lawsuit filed against the firm in the aftermath of its cyberattack last year, which affected some health sector clients and nearly 638,000 individuals.
As the Sam Bankman-Fried courtroom saga continues, crypto policy expert Ari Redbord discusses the sentencing's impact of the FTX founder on the ecosystem and regulations, what lies ahead for the industry and approaches to curbing illicit finance threats in the space.
The IT services disruptions resulting from the Change Healthcare cyberattack is continuing to have a "devastating" effect on physician practices, threatening the financial viability of many and posing serious implications to patient care, said the American Medical Association in a new study.
This week, Sisense supply chain attack, a likely Romanian botnet, Patch Tuesday, an Apple spyware warning and AT&T notifies customers of breach. Alcohol counselor Monument shared data with Meta, a breach of Home Depot employee data, a breach at Targus and a threat actor targeted Moroccan activists.
Threat actors behind malware distribution platform Raspberry Robin worm have shifted tactics to make the malware harder to detect and for researchers to analyze. Hackers deploying Raspberry Robin - often a precursor to a ransomware attack - now use Windows Script Files.
Cybercriminals launched 7.78 million attacks against U.K. businesses and nearly 1 million against charity organizations, according to the latest U.K. government survey report. But fewer than half of those firms reported the incidents to authorities, something researchers say is a concerning trend.
A financially motivated threat group used a script apparently coded by artificial intelligence to download an info stealer onto victim computers. The script, used to load the Rhadamanthys info stealer, contains "grammatically correct and hyper specific comments above each component of the script."
A Wisconsin nonprofit managed care organization is notifying nearly 534,000 individuals that their protected health information was copied and stolen in a recent attack by a "foreign ransomware gang" that also attempted - but failed - to encrypt the group's IT systems.
While banks and fraud fighters focus their energies on combating synthetic identities used by individuals, fraudsters are simultaneously establishing fake business entities to exploit the system for more money with far less hassle. The problem is getting worse and is not restricted to the U.S.
A new study published by researchers from the universities of Oxford and New South Wales ranks Russia at the top of a global list of cybercrime hot spots and says Ukraine, China, the United States, Nigeria and Romania are home to a majority of global cybercriminal activity.
The Vietnamese government recorded more than 20 million cyberattack alerts between January and March, 33% more than in the same period last year. The surge in attacks coincides with rising cases of credential theft by hackers on banks and financial institutions, both in Vietnam and abroad.
A cyberattack on a Boston-based consulting firm that provides litigation support services to the U.S. Department of Justice in its investigations has potentially compromised Medicare numbers and other health insurance and medical information of nearly 342,000 individuals.
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