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The post-COVID-19 surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with across-the-board digitalization, will be big drivers for medical-sector cyberattacks next year. Continue reading Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data
The Russian government hacking group known as Cozy Bear or APT29 has been targeting coronavirus vaccine research, U.K., U.S., and Canadian government officials said Thursday morning. The hackers have been trying to breach programs in all three countries, the officials said in a security assessment issued by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Agencies from the U.S. and Canada contributed to the effort. The hacking is aimed predominantly at “government, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy targets,” the NCSC said in the assessment. A senior official with the U.S. National Security Agency urged organizations to pay attention to the technical details in the document. “APT29 has a long history of targeting governmental, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy organizations for intelligence gain so we encourage everyone to take this threat seriously and apply the mitigations issued in the advisory,” NSA Cybersecurity Director Anne Neuberger said in a separate statement. State-backed hackers worldwide are interested in targeting research […]
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