CISA Releases Fact Sheet Detailing Embedded Backdoor Function of Contec CMS8000 Firmware

CISA released a fact sheet, Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor, detailing an analysis of three firmware package versions of the Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor used by the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health HPH sector. Analysts discovered that an embedded backdoor function with a hard-coded IP...

How Interlock Ransomware Infects Healthcare Organizations

Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a figure th...

UnitedHealth almost doubles victim numbers from massive Change Healthcare data breach

UnitedHealth says it now estimates that the data breach on its subsidiary Change Healthcare affected 190 million people, nearly doubling its previous estimate from October. In May, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty estimated that the ransomware attack compromised the data of a third of US individuals...

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [27 January]

Welcome to your weekly cybersecurity scoop! Ever thought about how the same AI meant to protect our hospitals could also compromise them? This week, we're breaking down the sophisticated world of AI-driven threats, key updates in regulations, and some urgent vulnerabilities in healthcare tech tha...

UnitedHealth Group’s Massive Data Breach Impacts 190 Million Americans

UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that a ransomware attack targeted its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, in February 2024, impacting 190…...

PT-2025-2936

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HL7 FHIR IG publisher versions prior to 1.7.4 Description The HL7 FHIR IG publisher is vulnerable to XML external entity injections due to XSLT transforms performed by various components. This issue can be exploited by submitting a malicious X...

Beware: Fake CAPTCHA Campaign Spreads Lumma Stealer in Multi-Industry Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware campaign that leverages fake CAPTCHA verification checks to deliver the infamous Lumma information stealer. "The campaign is global, with Netskope Threat Labs tracking victims targeted in Argentina, Colombia, the United States, the...

CISA: Security and Resiliency Guide - Healthcare and Public Health Facility Annex

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Hands-On Walkthrough: Microsegmentation For all Users, Workloads and Devices by Elisity

Network segmentation remains a critical security requirement, yet organizations struggle with traditional approaches that demand extensive hardware investments, complex policy management, and disruptive network changes. Healthcare and manufacturing sectors face particular challenges as they...

Logic flaws exist in the integrated collaborative office platform of Hunan Chuangxing Technology Co.

Hunan Chuangxing Technology Co., Ltd. is a national key high-tech enterprise focusing on providing overall solutions of informatization, digitization and intelligence in the field of medical and healthcare. A logic flaw exists in the integrated collaborative office platform of Hunan Chuangxing...

New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' HHS Office for Civil Rights OCR has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard patients' data against potential cyber attacks. The proposal, which seeks to modify the Health Insurance...

The Worst Hacks of 2024

From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever...

A week in security (December 9 – December 15)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Encrypted messaging service intercepted, 2.3 million messages read by law enforcement TikTok ban in US: Company seeks emergency injunction to prevent it Data brokers should stop trading health and location data, new bill proposes Update now! Apple releases new...

Canadian Eyecare Firm Care1 Exposes 2.2TB of Patient Records

Another day, another healthcare database misconfiguration exposing sensitive patient information...

4.8 million healthcare records left freely accessible

Your main business is healthcare, so your excuse when you get hacked is that you didn’t have the budget to secure your network. Am I right? So, in order to prevent a ransomware gang from infiltrating your network, you could just give them what they want—all your data. The seemingly preferred meth...

The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come

The design of the gun police say they found on the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer—the FMDA or “Free Men Don’t Ask”—was released by a libertarian group...

SmokeLoader Malware Resurfaces, Targeting Manufacturing and IT in Taiwan

Taiwanese entities in manufacturing, healthcare, and information technology sectors have become the target of a new campaign distributing the SmokeLoader malware. "SmokeLoader is well-known for its versatility and advanced evasion techniques, and its modular design allows it to perform a wide ran...

CVE-2024-52007

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag could produce XML containing data from the host...

CVE-2024-52007 XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing in `org.hl7.fhir.core`

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag could produce XML containing data from the host...

CVE-2024-52007

CVE-2024-52007 is an XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing within the HAPI FHIR org.hl7.fhir.core components. The issue arises from XML external entity injections when processing XML with a malicious DTD, potentially allowing host data to be exposed. The Red Hat advisory notes this is fixed by upgrad...