Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Healthcare Sector AI Expansion Raises Questions on Governance, Privacy and SafetyMayo Clinic and Microsoft are planning a new healthcare-specific frontier artificial intelligence model that aims to help clinicians make earlier diagnoses and deliver more personalized treatments to their patients. The clinic plans to make the new model available to patients and doctors.

Properly Configured Mobile Development Management Tools Can't Wipe Personal DataMobile device management software is having a moment of notoriety after Iran-aligned hacking group Handala used Microsoft Intune to wipe the mobile devices of employees at medical device manufacture Stryker. Tens of thousands of personal devices were likely affected.

CISA warned U.S. organizations to follow Microsoft guidance to strengthen the Intune endpoint management tool after a cyberattack exploited it to wipe medical technology giant Stryker's systems. [...]

Last week's cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker was limited to its internal Microsoft environment and remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices. [...]

Iran Expands Targeting, Including AWS, Google and Microsoft InfrastructureMichigan-based medical technology giant Stryker appears to have been hacked by a pro-Iranian group called Handala, leading to global operations being disrupted, IT devices remotely wiped and terabytes of data being stolen. Experts said Handala appears to be a "faketivist" group run by Tehran.

Handala weaponized Microsoft Intune to remotely wipe Stryker Corporation across 61 countries. We built 10 Sigma rules, KQL queries, and OpenSearch queries covering the full attack chain. Download the detection pack.

Hackers contacted employees at financial and healthcare organizations over Microsoft Teams to trick them into granting remote access through Quick Assist and deploy a new piece of malware called A0Backdoor. [...]

Also: Trojanized RedAlert App, Tycoon 2FA Takedown, CyberStrikeAI AttacksThis week, Cisco patches and hacks. Trojanized app targeted Israelis. Bye-bye, Tycoon 2FA. Also bye-bye LeakBase. A LexisNexis breach. Woman sentenced for trafficking Microsoft licenses. Silver Dragon targeted governments. Broadcom patch. A Mississippi medical clinic resumed operations.

PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia's child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more! Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its datacenters in Asia can access the energy they need.…

Also, Sedgwick Confirms Breach, Romanian Power Firm Hit, D-Link Flaws ExploitedThis week, Moody's said firewalls will be obsolete, Romanian critical infrastructure hacked, Sedgwick breach and a D-Link DSL flaw. Finland seized the Fitburg. Microsoft said Direct Send not to blame for Exchange phishing. Malicious Chrome extensions, European hotels targeted and health breaches.

Also, Sedgwick Confirms Breach, Romanian Power Firm Hit, D-Link Flaws ExploitedThis week, Moody's said firewalls will be obsolete, Romanian critical infrastructure hacked, Sedgwick breach and a D-Link DSL flaw. Finland seized the Fitburg. Microsoft said Direct Send not to blame for Exchange phishing. Malicious Chrome extensions, European hotels targeted and health breaches.

Class Action Litigation Alleges Web Trackers Shared Patient Data With Tech FirmsKaiser Permanente has agreed to pay up to $47.5 million to settle litigation stemming from its use of tracking codes in its websites, patient portals and mobile apps. Claimants alleged the trackers unlawfully shared patients' information with third parties, including Google and Microsoft.

Class Action Litigation and Criminal Case Focus on Actions of an Ex-Tech WorkerA federal court has granted preliminary approval of a $5 million settlement in class action litigation filed against Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health and Nuance Communications - now part of Microsoft - involving a 2023 insider data breach affecting more than 1 million Geisinger patients.

Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.…

Lawmaker Says Microsoft Lapses Led to Ascension Health's Major 2024 HackSen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft over the software giant's alleged "negligent cybersecurity," which he says contributed to ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure sector organizations, including last year's attack on Ascension Health.

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. [...]

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to probe Microsoft and hold it responsible for what he called "gross cybersecurity negligence" that enabled ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, including against healthcare networks

Ron Wyden urges FTC to probe failure to secure Windows after attackers used Kerberoasting to cripple Ascension Microsoft is back in the firing line after US Senator Ron Wyden accused Redmond of shipping "dangerous, insecure software" that helped cybercrooks cripple one of America's largest hospital networks.…

Settlement Is Latest Among Scores of Other MOVEit Lawsuits Still PendingNuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle class action litigation filed after hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software in 2023, stealing data belonging to more than a dozen of Nuance's healthcare clients.

AI Tool Streamlines Clinical Workflows at WellSpan With Microsoft's Dragon CopilotWellSpan Health deploys Dragon Copilot, blending voice dictation and ambient listening to ease clinician burnout. It streamlines tasks with generative AI as part of an ecosystem shift, offering hope amid high burnout rates and workforce shortages.