The 16 hospitals struck down by ransomware last week are still dealing with the fallout from the attack. The healthcare facilities…
Tag: healthcare
Summer of exploitation leads to healthcare under fire
May 2021 was a tough month for the Healthcare and Medical sector–the most notable threat trend at the time was the…
Email compromise leads to healthcare data breach at Kaiser Permanente
At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breachat Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in…
A week in security (May 24 -30)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we discussed VPN Android apps, how even the FBI has to deal with insider threats, Chrome’s…
NAME:WRECK, a potential IoT trainwreck
A set of vulnerabilities has been found in the way a number of popular TCP/IP stacks handle DNS requests. Potentially this…
Hospital ransomware: Gangs are back to target healthcare
Healthcare is not in a good place right now. With some countries and states deciding to go back in to lockdown…
Lock and Code S1Ep17: Journalism’s role in cybersecurity with Alfred Ng and Seth Rosenblatt
Most everything about cybersecurity—the threats, the vulnerabilities, the breaches and the blunders—doesn’t happen in a vacuum. And the public doesn’t learn…
A week in security (August 17 – 23)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare cybersecurity, dug into some pandemic stats in…
The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare cybersecurity
As if stress levels in the healthcare industry weren’t high enough due to the COVID-19 pandemic, risks to its already fragile…
Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?
DISCLAIMER: This post is not partisan, but rather focuses on risk assessment based on history and what threats we are facing…