110 Nursing Homes Cut Off from Health Records in Ransomware Attack

A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. The ongoing attack is preventing these care centers from accessing crucial patient medical records, and the IT...

A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...

New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new...

Threat Actor Impersonates USPS to Deliver Backdoor Malware

A new threat actor has been found impersonating the U.S. Postal Service USPS and other government agencies to deliver and install backdoor malware to various organizations in Germany, Italy and the United States, according to new research. The campaigns, which researchers from cybersecurity firm...

Philips IntelliBridge EC40/80 (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Philips Equipment: IntelliBridge EC40 and EC80 Vulnerability: Inadequate Encryption Strength 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSMA-19-318-01 Philips...

Google's Plan to Crunch Health Data on Millions of Patients Draws Fire

Tech behemoth Google is using artificial intelligence to reportedly slice and dice personal healthcare details on millions of Americans. That has some researchers diagnosing the company with HIPAA violations and prescribing regulatory controls as a remedy. And, at least one federal regulator is...

IoT Security Woes Plague Healthcare Industry

LAS VEGAS – More hospitals are adopting internet of things IoT devices, from wearables to smart insulin pens. But neither hospitals nor the device manufacturers themselves are ready to address the onslaught of security and privacy challenges that come with medical connected devices. At least 82...

Labs report finds cyberthreats against healthcare increasing while security circles the drain

The team at Malwarebytes Labs is at it again, this time with a special edition of our quarterly CTNT report—Cybercrime tactics and techniques: the 2019 state of healthcare. Over the last year, we gathered global data from our product telemetry, honeypots, threat intelligence, and research efforts...

Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a large...

Medtronic Valleylab FT10 and LS10

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Medtronic Equipment: Valleylab FT10, Valleylab LS10 Vulnerabilities: Improper Authentication, Protection Mechanism Failure 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to...

Philips IntelliSpace Perinatal

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.1 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Philips Equipment: IntelliSpace Perinatal Vulnerability: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker unauthorized access to system...

Microsoft and partners design new device security requirements to protect against targeted firmware attacks

Recent developments in security research and real-world attacks demonstrate that as more protections are proactively built into the OS and in connected services, attackers are looking for other avenues of exploitation with firmware emerging as a top target. In the last three years alone, NIST’s...

A Peak at the Edge: Akamai Sets New Traffic Benchmark

Last week Akamai reached a significant milestone when traffic on our intelligent edge platform exceeded the threshold of 100 Tbps terabits per second for the first time in our history, peaking at 106 Tbps. To put that volume of traffic into context, delivering 106 terabits per second is roughly t...

Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags

Yet another non-password protected cloud database has come to light, this time exposing a raft of highly personal information on healthcare workers and traveling nurses – including drug tests and arrest records. The incident showcases the unfortunate reality that cloud data security remains a...

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Panda Threat Group Mines for Monero With Updated Payload, Targets

The Panda threat group, best known for launching the widespread and successful 2018 “MassMiner” cryptomining malware campaign, has continued to use malware to mine cryptocurrency in more recent attacks. A fresh analysis of the group reveals Panda has adopted a newly-updated infrastructure, payloa...

Cryptocurrency miners aren’t dead yet: Documenting the voracious but simple “Panda”

By Christopher Evans and David Liebenberg. Executive summary A new threat actor named "Panda" has generated thousands of dollars worth of the Monero cryptocurrency through the use of remote access tools RATs and illicit cryptocurrency-mining malware. This is far from the most sophisticated actor...

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s entity Tra: The “medicare supply” issue, related to the absence of the defined attribute HTTPOnly, allows a hacker to gain access to the content of cookies files.

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s Tra: platform is related to the absence of the defined attribute HTTPOnly. Exploiting this vulnerability may allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to cookie...

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s entity Tra: The lack of protection for the website structure allows attackers to carry out cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s Tra:Pharmaceutical supply relates to the failure to take measures to protect the structure of the web page. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely...

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s entity Tra: The lack of a CSRF token in web forms allows actions to be performed on behalf of users, including administrators.

The vulnerability of the platform for automating operations in healthcare institutions of the Russian Federation’s Tra: Pharmaceutical Supply relates to the absence of a CSRF token in web forms. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute cross-site requests on behalf of...