Alleged ransomware affiliate arrested for healthcare attacks
A 31-year old Canadian national has been charged in connection to ransomware attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada, a federal indictment unsealed today shows. [...]
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Planned Parenthood LA discloses data breach after ransomware attack
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles has disclosed a data breach after suffering a ransomware attack in October that exposed the personal information of approximately 400,000 patients. [...]
DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people
DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC), an Ohio-based DNA testing company, has disclosed a hacking incident that affects 2,102,436 persons. [...]
Hackers target biomanufacturing with stealthy Tardigrade malware
An advanced hacking group is actively targeting biomanufacturing facilities with a new custom malware called 'Tardigrade.' [...]
Utah medical center hit by data breach affecting 582k patients
Utah Imaging Associates (UIA), a Utah-based radiology center, has announced a data breach affecting 582,170 people after their personal information was exposed. [...]
Medical software firm urges password resets after ransomware attack
Medatixx, a German medical software vendor whose products are used in over 21,000 health institutions, urges customers to change their application passwords following a ransomware attack that has severely impaired its entire operations. [...]
Philips healthcare infomatics solution vulnerable to SQL injection
The Philips Tasy EMR, used by hundreds of hospitals as a medical record solution and healthcare management system, is vulnerable to two critical SQL injection flaws. [...]
A Death Due to Ransomware
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a baby’s death at an Alabama hospital in 2019, which they argue was a direct result of the ransomware attack the hospital was undergoing. Amid the hack, fewer eyes were on the heart monitors — normally tracked on a large screen at …
Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack
Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services. Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest to a nation-state, but that’s probably just my failure of imagination. [...]
A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets
Threatpost editors discuss the SolarWinds hack, healthcare ransomware attacks and other threats that will plague enterprises in 2021. [...]
Fired Healthcare Exec Stalls Critical PPE Shipment for Months
A fired Stradis Healthcare employee sought revenge by tampering with shipping data for desperately needed healthcare PPE. [...]
Threatpost Poll: Weigh in on Ransomware Security
Provide your views on ransomware and how to deal with it in our anonymous Threatpost poll. [...]
Ransomware Gang Collects Data from Blood Testing Lab
Apex Laboratory patient data was lifted and posted on a leak site. [...]
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