A financially motivated threat actor called Blind Eagle returned from its hiatus and is conducting an ongoing campaign directed at Spanish-speaking targets in the banking industry in Colombia and Ecuador. The hacking group appears to have updated its tools and infection chain.
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Maternal and Family Health Services this week revealed a ransomware attack in April 2022 that compromised patient medical and financial data. Information accessed in the breach includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers.
Determining which asset vulnerabilities should be prioritized for remediation is one of the biggest challenges for virtually every CISO and CSO, says Armis co-founder and CEO Yevgeny Dibrov. Dibrov says CVE and CVSS scores aren't an effective way to prioritize which vulnerabilities to fix first.
Potential regulatory policy moves by the federal government could help healthcare entities dedicate more resources to bolstering their cybersecurity efforts, says Greg Garcia, executive director of cybersecurity at the Health Sector Coordinating Council.
A municipal ambulance services provider that serves 15 cities in a Texas county has reported to federal regulators a ransomware breach potentially affecting 612,000 individuals, which is equivalent to nearly 30% of the county's 2.1 million population.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how collaboration platform Zoom has strengthened its security features, the implications of a new law on medical device security for patient safety, and details on how a zero-day exploit enabled the ransomware hit on cloud computing firm Rackspace.
Industrial control vendors such as Honeywell are increasingly adopting Nozomi Networks within their security portfolio, says CEO Edgard Capdevielle. Firms such as Siemens can actually run Nozomi's products inside their platform, while others have incorporated its tool into a managed service bundle.
Hosting giant Rackspace says the recent ransomware attack resulted in Microsoft Exchange data for 27 customer organizations being accessed by attackers. But it says a digital forensic investigation has found "no evidence" that attackers "viewed, obtained, misused or disseminated emails or data."
Expect the recently leaked database containing over 200 million Twitter records to be an ongoing resource for hackers, fraudsters and other criminals operating online, experts warn. Though 98% of the email addresses have appeared in prior breaches, bad actors can merge databases and do more damage.
Cybercriminals are becoming bolder in their attacks on healthcare entities and in how they're compromising patient data - and that's a very worrisome trend, says Nicholas Heesters of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.
Federal regulators have kicked off the New Year with a $16,000 HIPAA penalty against an Atlanta-based medical testing laboratory for failure to provide timely access to a patient records request. The settlement is the 43rd HHS enforcement action in these types of disputes.
In the latest legal volley between the Federal Trade Commission and Kochava, the FTC is asking a federal court to dismiss a "preemptive" lawsuit filed by the data broker last summer, weeks before the regulatory agency filed an enforcement action against the firm alleging data privacy violations.
Coinbase agreed to a $100 million settlement with the New York financial regulator on Wednesday over cybersecurity lapses and failure to comply with anti-money laundering guidelines that allowed criminals to use the platform for fraud, money laundering and other illicit activities.
Software vulnerabilities installed by luxury car manufacturers including Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce and Porsche that could allow remote attackers to control vehicles and steal owners' personal details have been fixed. Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities while vacationing.
The embrace of the open internet as the new corporate network has created challenges around remote access and employee security, says Perimeter 81 CEO Amit Bareket. Perimeter 81 has attempted to simplify securing remote work by bringing ZTNA and SWG together on a single management console.
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