Month: April 2022

Smile Brands located in Irvine, CA offers support services for dental clinics. It just gave a new report on the number of persons affected by a ransomware attack, which was uncovered on April 24, 2021. […]

The five eyes cybersecurity agencies have lately published a joint security advisory regarding the danger of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure carried out by pro-Russia cybercriminal groups and Russian nation-state threat actors. Intelligence collected by the […]

Georgia Pines CSB and Ballard Health recently reported security breaches that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 28,295 people. Ballad Health Finds Breach Involving Employee Email Account Ballard Health, an integrated community health improvement […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has given a TLP: WHITE flash notification regarding the BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. BlackCat, also called ALPHAV, which began in November 2021. It was released immediately after the shutdown […]

The HHS’ Office of Information Security Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has released a TLP: White alert concerning the Hive ransomware gang – A specifically hostile cybercriminal operation that has substantially attacked the healthcare […]

For the fourth month now, there has been a drop in the number of reported healthcare data breaches. March 2022 had 43 healthcare data breaches involving 500 and up records reported to the U.S. Department […]

Newman Regional Health (NRH), which manages a 25-bed critical access hospital located in Emporia, KS, has lately begun informing 52,224 individuals that unauthorized persons have acquired access to selected employee email accounts containing protected health […]

Legal action was taken versus the in-home respiratory care company, SuperCare Health, because of a cyberattack and information breach report sent to the Department of Health and Human Services as of March 28, 2022. The […]

Resources for Human Development Breach Impacts 46,673 Persons Resources for Human Development (RHD), a national human services non-profit group based in Philadelphia, PA, has recently reported the theft of a hard drive that contains the […]

There were five zero-day vulnerabilities found in Aethon TUG autonomous mobile robots, which hospitals around the world use for transporting products, medicines, and other medical items. Hospital robots are alluring targets for hackers. When access […]

Due to the latest data breach at Mailchimp, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) gave an alert regarding the risk of phishing attacks utilizing this email marketing service. […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new draft guidance to help medical device companies integrate cybersecurity features into their merchandise at the premarket phase, and to make sure safety risks are taken […]

Charleston Area Medical Center Breach Had 54,000 Victims Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) located in Charleston, WV, has just announced a phishing attack that allowed unauthorized individuals to get access to the email accounts of […]

SuperCare Health based in Downey, CA, a provider of post-acute, in-home respiratory care in the Western United States, recently began informing 318,379 individuals about the exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI) and […]

Two remote code execution vulnerabilities were discovered in the Spring platform – a well-known application framework utilized by software creators for quickly creating Java apps. Proof-of-concept exploits for the two vulnerabilities can be found in […]

An audit of Health Insurance Exchange of Connecticut, Access Health CT, by the state auditor indicated that Access Health CT experienced 44 data breaches in the period of 3.5 years and did not completely report […]

Partnership Health Plan of California Getting back from Alleged Ransomware Attack The nonprofit managed care health plan based in Fairfield, CA, Partnership Health Plan of California (PHC), experienced a cyberattack that resulted in the shut […]

$7 Billion Lost Every Year Because of Fraud Rep. Ted Archer explained a Congressional Report to the House Ways and Means Committee in March 1996. The report exposed the degree of abuse and fraud in […]