Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
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Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
As the war with Iran continues, breach attempts targeting the United Arab Emirates tripled in a few weeks — many targeting critical infrastructure.
The ransomware gang breached a "major element" of the healthcare technology supply chain and stole sensitive patient data, according to researchers.
In the past year, "Static Tundra," aka "Energetic Bear," has breached thousands of end-of-life Cisco devices unpatched against a 2018 flaw, in a campaign targeting enterprises and critical infrastructure.
One of the largest data breaches in history was apparently twice as impactful as previously thought, with PII belonging to hundreds of millions of people sitting in the hands of cybercriminals.
The cyber actor played a role in the Treasury breach as well as attacks on critical infrastructure, linked to China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group Salt Typhoon.
Parasitic advanced persistent threat Secret Blizzard accesses another APT's infrastructure and steals what it has stolen from South Asian government and military targets.
SANS recently published its 2024 State of ICS.OT Cybersecurity report, highlighting the skills of cyber professionals working in critical infrastructure, budget estimates, and emerging technologies. The report also looked at the most common types of attack vectors used against ICT/OT networks.
Eight months after the breach occurred, Change Healthcare has finally sent out millions of notices of compromised data to affected individuals.
An attacker accessed personal information of over 225,000 active, reserve, and former UK military members from third-party payroll processing system.
Whoopsies in Ireland and Scotland speak to a tenuousness of cyber protections for sensitive private healthcare data.
Healthcare tech provider Change Healthcare says a suspected nation-state threat actor breached its systems, causing pharmacy transaction delays nationwide.
More than two dozen hospitals have been impacted by the breach and are diverting emergency care for patients to other healthcare facilities.
More than two dozen hospitals have been impacted by the breach and are diverting emergency care for patients to other healthcare facilities.
Whether or not North Korea used information gathered from its cyber-espionage teams in this breach to build up its own military technology is unknown.
The hackers posted up for sale stolen HCA Healthcare data on Dark Web forum.
As investigations continue, researchers find confirmation in their suspicions of a sprawling attack affecting multiple organizations.
The healthcare sector is twice as likely to face data breach consequences as any other industry surveyed.