Millions of Unpatched IoT, OT Devices Threaten Critical Infrastructure

Thousands of organizations remain at risk from the URGENT/11 and CDPwn collections of vulnerabilities, which affect operational technology OT gear and internet of things IoT, respectively. Unfortunately, there has been a rampant lack of patching, researchers said. According to researchers at Armi...

Ransomware and IP Theft: Top COVID-19 Healthcare Security Scares

Healthcare cybersecurity threats have been under the spotlight this past year, in particular with the rise of COVID-19 and the budgetary and resource strains that has put on hospitals. Beau Woods, a Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council, founder and CEO of Stratigos Security an...

CVE-2020-25179

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

CVE-2020-25175

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

Code injection

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

Code injection

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

CVE-2020-25175

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

CVE-2020-25175

CVE-2020-25175 affects GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products. The flaw is unprotected transport of credentials (CWE-523), enabling credentials to be exposed over the network. Connected documentation confirms affected GE product lines across modalities (MR, Ultrasound, X-Ray, etc.) and lis...

CVE-2020-25179

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products may allow specific credentials to be exposed during transport over the network...

CVE-2020-25179

CVE-2020-25179 affects GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products. The issue involves unprotected transport of credentials and exposure of sensitive system information to an unauthorized control sphere, enabling credential exposure during network transport. Impact described in ICS advisory inc...

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Targeted in EU Cyberattack

Criminals haven’t given up on stealing COVID-19 vaccine data. Yet another cyberattack has been launched — this time, threat actors were able to break into the European Medicines Agency EMA server and access documentation about the vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech. The breach is just...

VideoBytes: Ryuk Ransomware Targeting US Hospitals

Hello Folks! In this Videobyte, we’re talking about why hospitals are being targeted by the Ryuk ransomware, what tricks they are using to pull this off and what their motivations might be. Ryuk ransomware is being spread to hospitals using targeted phishing emails that infect systems with the...

Critical, Unpatched Bug Opens GE Radiological Devices to Remote Code Execution

A pair of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in dozens of GE Healthcare radiological devices popular in hospitals, which could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive personal health information PHI, alter data and even shut the machine’s availability down. The flaws affect 100...

Spearphishing Attack Spoofs Microsoft.com to Target 200M Office 365 Users

A spearphishing attack is spoofing Microsoft.com to target 200 million Microsoft Office 365 users in a number of key vertical markets, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and utility providers. Researchers at Ironscales discovered the campaign targeting several thousand...

General Electric Healthcare Imaging and General Electric Healthcare Ultrasound Security Vulnerabilities

General Electric Healthcare Imaging and General Electric Healthcare Ultrasound are both products of General Electric, Inc.General Electric Healthcare Imaging is a medical imaging device. General Electric Healthcare Ultrasound is a medical sonography device. GE Imaging and Ultrasound Products have...

Medtronic MyCareLink Smart

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable with adjacent access/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Medtronic Equipment: MyCareLink MCL Smart Model 25000 Patient Reader Vulnerabilities: Improper Authentication, Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition 2...

General Electric Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Information Disclosure Vulnerability

General Electric Healthcare Imaging and General Electric Healthcare Ultrasound are both products of General Electric, Inc.General Electric Healthcare Imaging is a medical imaging device. General Electric Healthcare Ultrasound is a medical sonography device. General Electric Healthcare Imaging and...

GE Healthcare Imaging and Ultrasound Products

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: GE Healthcare Equipment: GE Imaging and Ultrasound Products Vulnerabilities: Unprotected Transport of Credentials, Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere 2. RISK...

Insider Report: Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in COVID-Era

In 2020, the healthcare industry began a massive shift, as legacy cybersecurity issues merged with new security challenges spurred on by the spread of COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, the medical arena wrestled with major cybersecurity challenges, including insecure medical devices, protecting...

Healthcare in Crisis: Diagnosing Cybersecurity Shortcomings in Unprecedented Times

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S. hard in March, the Elmhurst Hospital was forced into a logistical nightmare. It was a grim sign of the times, as the Queens, N.Y. hospital was flooded with hundreds of sick patients, with one medical resident describing conditions as “apocalyptic”,...