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...

BD Pyxis Authorization Issues Vulnerability

BD Pyxis is a medication management system from BD Medical BD. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in BD Pyxis ES versions 1.3.4 through 1.6.1 and Pyxis Enterprise Server Windows Server versions 4.4 through 4.12, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a previous user's...

Ransomware Hits Dental Data Backup Service Offering Ransomware Protection

THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the United States are using to safeguard medical records and other information of their patients from ransomware attacks has been hit with ransomware. Provided by two...

Medical industry struggles with PACS data leaks

In the medical world, sharing patient data between organizations and specialists has always been an issue. X-Rays, notes, CT scans, and any other data or related files have always existed and been shared in their physical forms slides, paperwork. When a patient needed to take results of a test to...

New research finds hospitals are easy targets for phishing attacks

New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston finds hospital employees are extremely vulnerable to phishing attacks. The study highlights just how effective phishing remains as a tactic—the need for defense against and awareness of email scams is more critical than ever. The research w...

RSA Conference 2019: Ultrasound Hacked in Two Clicks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers have highlighted the endemic insecurity of the hospital environment by executing a proof-of-concept attack on an ultrasound machine. In doing so, they were able to gain access to the machine’s entire database of patient ultrasound images. Check Point Research worked wi...

Medical records & patient-doctor recordings of thousands of people exposed

By Carolina Another day, another trove of medical records leaked online, thanks to a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. Medical records are considered to be sensitive documents and when a malicious third party has access to them it is a bad news as these records can be used for fraud, blackmailing and...

BD Kiestra and InoquIA Systems (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable from adjacent network Vendor : Becton, Dickinson and Company BD Equipment : BD Kiestra and InoqulA systems Vulnerabilities : Product UI does not Warn User of Unsafe Actions 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the...

Biosense Webster Carto 3 System Vulnerabilities

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Biosense Webster Inc. BWI, a Johnson & Johnson company, has produced a software update that applies operating system patches and anti-virus signature updates to close known vulnerabilities in the operating system of the CARTO 3 System, a 3D cardiovascular mapping platform...

DocuTrac QuicDoc and Office Therapy DTISQLInstaller.exe Information Disclosure Vulnerability

DocuTrac QuicDoc and Office Therapy are both products of DocuTrac, Inc.DocuTrac QuicDoc is a behavioral health management software for healthcare teams.Office Therapy is an office practice management system.DTISQLInstaller.exe is one of the DTISQLInstaller.exe is one of the executable programs. A...

CVE-2018-5438

Philips ISCV application prior to version 2.3.0 has an insufficient session expiration vulnerability where an attacker could reuse the session of a previously logged in user. This vulnerability exists when using ISCV together with an Electronic Medical Record EMR system, where ISCV is in KIOSK mo...

Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular System and Xcelera System Plaintext Storage Vulnerability

The Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular and Xcelera systems predecessor to IntelliSpace Cardiovascular are comprehensive cardiac imaging and information management software. The Philips IntelliSpace Cardiovascular System and Xcelera System have a plaintext storage vulnerability where credentials...

E-Health Android App suffers from an override access vulnerability

E-Health Android APP is a mobile medical application that aims to improve the patient experience, enhance the service level of medical institutions, and strengthen the communication between doctors and patients. E-Health Android APP has an overstepping access vulnerability, the attacker can view...

MEDHOST Document Management Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-27413)

MEDHOST Document Management System is a document management system from the American company MEDHOST. The system manages documents such as user access and audit logs by defining different roles and permissions. A security vulnerability exists in MEDHOST Document Management System, which originate...

MEDHOST Document Management Information Disclosure Vulnerability

MEDHOST Document Management System is a document management system from the American company MEDHOST. The system manages documents such as user access and audit logs by defining different roles and permissions. A security vulnerability exists in MEDHOST Document Management System, which originate...

Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital's Android APP suffers from overstepping access vulnerability

"Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital" is the Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital official cell phone application software, designed to simplify the process of medical treatment on the basis of the hospital's existing services, reduce the waiting time for medical treatment, convenient for patients to seek...

MEDHOST Document Management Hardcoded Certificate Disclosure Vulnerability

MEDHOST Document Management System is a document management system from the American company MEDHOST. The system manages documents such as user access and audit logs by defining different roles and permissions. A security vulnerability exists in MEDHOST Document Management System due to a...

Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital's Android App Has Override Access Vulnerability

Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital APP is a medical app for local people in Guizhou, making it easier and faster for people to see a doctor. Download Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital APP to utilize ID cards, visiting cards and other identification to get all the information about the visit,...

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) Aerospace 731 Hospital Android APP suffers from overstepping access vulnerability

"Aerospace 731 Hospital" is the official cell phone application software launched by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation CASIC 731 Hospital, aiming to simplify the medical process, reduce the waiting time for medical treatment on the basis of the hospital's existing services,...

Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital Android APP has information leakage vulnerability

"Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital" is the Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital official cell phone application software, designed to simplify the process of medical treatment on the basis of the hospital's existing services, reduce the waiting time for medical treatment, convenient for patients to seek...