Phishing incident causes data breach at West Virginia hospitals
A hospital system in West Virginia has suffered a data breach resulting from a phishing attack, which gave hackers access to several email accounts. ...
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Cybercriminals threaten to hack EU hospitals in latest COVID-19 vaccine scam
Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new COVID-19 vaccination scam involving hackers tricking victims into providing their personal information under the assumption that cybercriminals can...
Mass Personal Data Theft From Paris Covid Tests: Hospitals
Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital...
Philips study finds hospitals struggling to manage thousands of IoT devices
Health technology company Philips and cybersecurity company CyberMDX released a new report this week covering cybersecurity spending and trends at mid-sized as well as large...
PwnedPiper PTS Security Flaws Threaten 80% of Hospitals in the U.S.
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a set of nine vulnerabilities known as “PwnedPiper” that left a widely-used pneumatic tube system (PTS) vulnerable to critical...
Threat Actors Release Patient Data Stolen from New Zealand Hospitals to the Local Media – E Hacking News
Cybercriminals who targeted hospitals in New Zealand’s Waikato district have published the stolen patient data to the local media outlets, with the outlets...
Ransomware: How the NHS learned the lessons of WannaCry to protect hospitals from attack
Four years ago, the UK’s National Health Service suddenly found itself one of the most high-profile victims of a global cyberattack. On 12 May...
Cyber criminals targeting hospitals are ‘playing with lives’ and must be stopped, report warns
Cyberattacks targeting healthcare are putting patients at unnecessary risk and more must be done to hold the cyber criminals involved to account, warns the...
COVID pandemic causes spike in cyberattacks against hospitals, medical companies
Cyberattacks against healthcare organizations have doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, research suggests. On Wednesday, IBM released the company’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, which...
Medical Records of Two US Based Hospitals Leaked on Dark Web – E Hacking News
Two major US hospitals, the Leon Medical Centers in Miami, and Nocona General Hospital in Texas have recently been hit by active ransomware...