Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Financially Strapped Cloud Services Firm Settles Suit From 2020 Patient Data HackA financially strapped cloud services vendor that experienced a 2020 ransomware attack affecting dozens of healthcare sector clients and hundreds of thousands of patients has agreed to a $1.9 million settlement in proposed class action litigation involving the data theft case.

Agency Kicks Off New Year With First HIPAA Enforcement Actions, $170K in FinesA Massachusetts firm that provides billing and other services to home health agencies and a Virginia-based data hosting and cloud provider are the latest companies paying federal regulators settlements. HHS levied $170,000 in fines following investigations into ransomware breaches.

Also: Hospitals Spend More on Cybersecurity; Critical Flaw in WordPressThis week, a cloud server error revealed sanction busting, Moody's said hospital cybersecurity spending is up, the U.S. restricted visas for commercial spyware operators, a ransomware attack hit a lab in Italy, hackers exploited a WordPress flaw, and Argentinian data is for sale on a criminal forum.

Alliance Had Sued LockBit Gang to Force Cloud Firm to Release Affected Patient DataA cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in a ransomware attack by LockBit. The hospital group had filed a lawsuit against LockBit as a legal maneuver to force the storage firm to return data the cybercriminals had stashed on the vendor's servers.

Two not-for-profit hospitals in New York are seeking a court order to retrieve data stolen in an August ransomware attack that's now stored on the servers of a Boston cloud storage company. [...]

How to reduce the risk and impact of ransomware attacks on AWS data and applications Webinar Ransomware has a longer history than you might imagine. The very first recognized attack was at the World Health Organization in 1989 when the AIDS Trojan was distributed to 20,000 attendees via floppy disc.…