Hackers Cashing In On Healthcare Industry Security Weaknesses

SAN FRANCISCO – Cybercriminals are pushing boundaries in looking for new ways to cash in on the healthcare space – whether it is persuading desperate patients to download health information apps that actually infect their devices with malware, attacking hospitals with ransomware attacks or even...

LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians

LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million Canadians customers. The company announced the breach in a press release posted on its website, revealing...

LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians

LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million Canadians customers. The company announced the breach in a press release posted on its website, revealing...

Cybersecurity of connected healthcare 2020: Overview and predictions

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2019. Advanced threat predictions for 2020 5G technology predictions 2020 Corporate security prediction 2020 Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2020: Overview and predictions More than two years after the infamous Wannacry ransomware crippled medical facilities and...

Beers with Talos Ep. #56 - Flatlined: Breach to Bankrupt

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 56 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded 6/24/19 - Back in the studio for EP 56 and off the top, Matt got some new audio toy for his side hustle as a Twitch star...

A week in security (June 10 – 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we revealed to readers the mindset of security pros as to why they lack confidence in their ability to prevent their organizations getting breached. We also reported on Maine Governor Janet Mills implementing the state’s own privacy protections, how Apple can bette...

LabCorp: 7.7 Million Consumers Hit in Collections Firm Breach

Medical testing giant LabCorp. said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party -- the American Medical Collection Agency AMCA -- also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that a...

CVE-2018-18975

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE app for iOS before 2019-01-15. An attacker may proxy communications between the app and Ascensia backend servers because of a weak certificate-pinning implementation, leading to disclosure of medical information...

CVE-2018-18976

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for iOS and Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may retrieve encrypted medical information of any user of the Ascensia cloud platform by performing Direct Object References with a series of user ID values. This information ca...

CVE-2018-18977

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may reverse engineer the codebase to extract sensitive data that contributes to the disclosure of medical information of patients utilizing the Ascensia platform. This occurs because of...

CVE-2018-18979

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. It has a statically coded initialization vector. Extraction of the initialization vector is necessary for deciphering communications between this application and the backend server. This, in...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may reverse engineer the codebase to extract sensitive data that contributes to the disclosure of medical information of patients utilizing the Ascensia platform. This occurs because of...

CVE-2018-18977

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may reverse engineer the codebase to extract sensitive data that contributes to the disclosure of medical information of patients utilizing the Ascensia platform. This occurs because of...

Millions of Medical Documents for Addiction and Recovery Patients Leaked

As if wrestling with addiction and recovery weren’t difficult enough, tens of thousands of patients of a rehab clinic in Pennsylvania may find their personal information hijacked and manipulated by identity thieves or extortionists. An ElasticSearch database that was left open to the internet...

Philips Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Cardiac Patient Information

A vulnerability in the Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular ISCV line of medical data management products would allow privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution – opening the door for an attacker to siphon out all kinds of confidential patient information, including medical images and full...

Time of death? A therapeutic postmortem of connected medicine

TheSAS2017 presentation: Smart Medicine Breaches Its "First Do No Harm" Principle At last year's Security Analyst Summit 2017 we predicted that medical networks would be a titbit for cybercriminals. Unfortunately, we were right. The numbers of medical data breaches and leaks are increasing...

Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Researchers Find Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals By Christiaan Beek · March 11, 2018 The nonperishable nature of medical data makes an irresistible target for cybercriminals. The art of hacking requires significant time and effort, encouraging experience...

Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Researchers Find Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals By Christiaan Beek · March 11, 2018 The nonperishable nature of medical data makes an irresistible target for cybercriminals. The art of hacking requires significant time and effort, encouraging experience...

OpenEMR 5.0.0 Command Injection / Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

OpenEMR version 5.0.0 suffers from code execution and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Project Description The “OpenEMR” software is vulnerable to OS command injection which allows an attacker to compromise the server hosting the affected software. Furthermore, reflected cross site scripting...

Connected Medicine and Its Diagnosis

Medical data is slowly but surely migrating from paper mediums to the digital infrastructure of medical institutions. Today, the data is "scattered" across databases, portals, medical equipment, etc. In some cases, the security of the network infrastructure of such organizations is neglected, and...