Cybersecurity

Optum Offering Financial Aid to Some Providers Hit by Outage

3rd Party Risk Management , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime But Hospital Lobby Group Contends Funding Is ‘Onerous’ and ‘Exceedingly’ Limited Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 4, 2024     UnitedHealth Group is offering short-term financial assistance to some providers whose payments have been affected by the Change Healthcare IT outage. (Image: Getty) […]

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Ransomware gang seeks $3.4 million after attacking children’s hospital

A ransomware gang is seeking $3.4 million after attacking a children’s hospital in Chicago, forcing staff to resort to manual processes to provide care to patients. The attack on Lurie Children’s Hospital was announced earlier this month, when officials said they had been forced to take their entire network offline due to an unspecified “cybersecurity […]

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AHA: Rise in Scams Targeting IT Help Desks for Payment Fraud

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare , Industry Specific American Hospital Association Warns of Social Engineering Schemes Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • January 18, 2024     Image: Getty Threat actors are targeting hospital IT help desks with elaborate social engineering scams to commit payment fraud by using stolen credentials from billing and payments employees, […]

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LockBit claims November attack on New Jersey hospital that disrupted patient care

The LockBit ransomware gang took credit for a November attack on a hospital system that forced multiple facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to cancel appointments and operate without patient files. This weekend, LockBit posted Capital Health to its extortion website, threatening to leak seven terabytes of stolen data from the company. The gang claimed […]

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Rhysida ransomware group hacked Abdali Hospital in Jordan

Rhysida ransomware group hacked Abdali Hospital in Jordan Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2023 The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked Abdali Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital located in Jordan. Abdali Hospital is a multi-specialty hospital located in the modern development of Al-Abdali, Amman, Jordan. Abdali Hospital provides care to patients in numerous specialties. Apart from its general surgery section, it has specialists in […]

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Kansas City-area hospital transfers patients, reschedules appointments after cyberattack

A hospital near Kansas City, Missouri, is struggling to provide care to patients this week after a cyberattack limited its systems. In an update on Wednesday, Liberty Hospital said it was still dealing with disruptions to its computer systems that began on Tuesday. The facility initially had to transfer some patients to other hospitals, but […]

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