NetWalker Ransomware Suspect Charged; Tor Site Seized

Hot on the heels of the Emotet takedown announced Wednesday, the NetWalker ransomware has also been partially disrupted by an international police action. The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it has brought charges “against a Canadian national in relation to NetWalker ransomware attacks,...

Einstein Healthcare Network Announces August Breach

Einstein Health Network, a Pennsylvania-based company operating medical rehab, outpatient and primary care centers, announced a breach of its employee email system, which exposed patient personal and medical information. The company waited more than five months to make the compromise public...

Philips Interventional Workstations

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Philips Equipment: Philips Interventional WorkSpot, Coronary Tools/Dynamic Coronary Roadmap/Stentboost Live, ViewForum Vulnerability: OS Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this...

Medical Device Security: Diagnosis Critical

A hacked insulin pump is the last thing a diabetic wants to worry about when life-saving fluids are pumped into their body. Sadly, concerns about medical device IT security are a healthcare reality. Last year, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued more than a...

Beers with Talos Ep. #98: Why ransomware actors are (and aren’t) targeting health care

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 98 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded early November 2020. This is an episode we recorded ...

Web Application Attacks on Healthcare Spike 51% As COVID-19 Vaccines are Introduced

As the first vials of COVID-19 vaccines were disseminated in December, Imperva Research Labs monitored an astounding 51% increase in web application attacks on healthcare targets. The activity concludes an unprecedented year of cybersecurity activity. Imperva data shows the healthcare industry...

A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets

The new year started off with a bang, with the SolarWinds hack revealed in late December acting as a jarring reminder to companies and U.S. government departments alike that cybercriminals continue to successfully exploit security lapses in technology. But beyond the SolarWinds supply-chain...

Fired Healthcare Exec Stalls Critical PPE Shipment for Months

The FBI has announced that Christopher Dobbins pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison for breaching and temporarily disabling the Stradis Healthcare shipping system using a secret account, after being fired weeks earlier. Last March, as doctors reported having to ration and reuse...

Threatpost Poll: Weigh in on Ransomware Security

It’s no secret that ransomware attacks continue to rise – with the number of attacks jumping by 350 percent since 2018. Healthcare systems have been hit particularly hard over the past year by ransomware actors, with a recent report saying that healthcare organizations have seen a 45 percent...

Innokas Yhtymä Oy Vital Signs Monitor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Innokas Yhtymä Oy Equipment: Vital Signs Monitor VC150 Vulnerabilities: Cross-site Scripting, Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component 2. RISK EVALUATION...

Cyberattacks on Healthcare Spike 45% Since November

As COVID-19 ravages international healthcare systems, cybercriminals have decided to leverage the increasingly dire circumstances to squeeze a few bucks out of the human suffering. According to new findings from Check Point Software, healthcare organizations have seen a 45-percent increase in...

Healthcare Industry Witnessed 45% Spike in Cyber Attacks Since Nov 20

Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations have spiked by 45% since November 2020 as COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally. According to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, this increase has made the sector the most targeted industry b...

Healthcare Industry Witnessed 45% Spike in Cyber Attacks Since Nov 20

Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations have spiked by 45% since November 2020 as COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally. According to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, this increase has made the sector the most targeted industry b...

Ransomware Gang Collects Data from Blood Testing Lab

Apex Laboratory, which provides blood work at home for patients in New York City, Long Island and South Florida, has been hit with a ransomware attack that also resulted in patient data being stolen. Though the company just disclosed the attack, it took place on July 25, when “certain systems in...

Hackers Amp Up COVID-19 IP Theft Attacks

Attackers are looking to the healthcare space as a rich repository of intellectual property IP now more than ever, as critical research of COVID-19 therapeutics are developed and Pfizer, Moderna and other biotech firms begin to mass produce vaccines. Several incidents show that nation-states are...

Ransomware in 2020: A Banner Year for Extortion

Remote learning platforms shut down. Hospital chemotherapy appointments cancelled. Ransomware attacks in 2020 dominated as a top threat vector this past year. Couple that with the COVID-19 pandemic, putting strains on the healthcare sector, and we witnessed ransomware exact a particularly cruel...

Telemed Poll Uncovers Biggest Risks and Best Practices

Healthcare organizations have gone virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, just like the rest of us – with the use of telehealth services becoming the go-to format for med checks, routine consultations and therapist visits. But how safe are these services when it comes to patient data? In an...

Treck TCP/IP Stack (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Treck Inc. Equipment: TCP/IP Vulnerability : Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-bounds Read, Out-of-bounds Write The Treck TCP/IP stack may be known by other names such as Kasago TCP/IP, ELMIC, Net+ OS, Quadnet, GHNET v2,...

5M WordPress Sites Running 'Contact Form 7' Plugin Open to Attack

A patch for the popular WordPress plugin called Contact Form 7 was released Thursday. It fixes a critical bug that allows an unauthenticated adversary to takeover a website running the plugin or possibly hijack the entire server hosting the site. The patch comes in the form of a 5.3.2 version...

45 Million Medical Images Left Exposed Online

More than 45 million medical images—and the personally identifiable information PII and personal healthcare information PHI associated with them–have been left exposed online due to unsecured technology that’s typically used to store, send and receive medical data, new research has found. A team...