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Ransomware attacks against healthcare providers aren’t new. In 2017, two crypto-malware infections affecting medical organizations made The State of Security’s top list of ransomware attacks for the year. The first involved an unknown strai… Continue reading Ransomware – A Reminder for Healthcare Providers to Lock Down Their Environments
Billion-dollar American health care company Allscripts faces a lawsuit for failing to secure systems and data after it was crippled by a SamSam ransomware attack earlier this month. The lawsuit was filed in Illinois by the Florida-based Surfside Non-Surgical Orthopedics on behalf of all clients affected by the incident. The company, which provides health care IT solutions like health record and practice management as well as electronic prescription services, was first hit by ransomware on Jan. 18. It took more than a week to fully recover. In that time, the lawsuit alleges, patient records were out of reach, business and care was interrupted and revenue was lost. “Allscripts was aware, however, that at all times pertinent hereto, that deficiencies in its product and services could result in privacy and security vulnerability or compromises and failed to take adequate measures to protect against any such event,” the lawsuit charges. The plaintiffs then point to a […]
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Allscripts, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) technology to hospitals, was hit by ransomware this week, provoking an outage that affected thousands of physicians’ practices and healthcare providers across the United States. Allscripts … Continue reading New ransomware attack forces hospitals to turn away patients
I shared a meal not long ago with a source who works at a financial services company. The subject of ransomware came up and he told me that a server in his company had recently been infected with a particularly nasty strain that spread to several systems before the outbreak was quarantined. He said the folks in finance didn’t bat an eyelash when asked to authorize several payments of $600 to satisfy the Bitcoin ransom demanded by the intruders: After all, my source confessed, the data on one of the infected systems was worth millions — possibly tens of millions — of dollars, but for whatever reason the company didn’t have backups of it.
This anecdote has haunted me because it speaks volumes about what we can likely expect in the very near future from ransomware — malicious software that scrambles all files on an infected computer with strong encryption, and then requires payment from the victim to recover them. Continue reading Ransomware Getting More Targeted, Expensive
Cisco Talos said that 3.2 million servers are vulnerable to the JBoss flaw used as the initial point of compromise in the recent SamSam ransomware attacks. Continue reading 3.2 Million Servers Vulnerable to JBoss Attack
Hackers are escalating recent attacks against hospitals with new stains of server-side ransomware whose most recent variants are dubbed SamSam and Maktub. Continue reading New Server-Side Ransomware Hitting Hospitals