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Incident Spotted in March 2024 Is Yet Another Attack Against Medical Billing FirmsA Nebraska-based firm that provides revenue cycle management and billing services to healthcare firms is notifying tens of thousands of people and an undisclosed number of companies that their personal, health and financial information was compromised in a March 2024 hack.

Flaws in Solar Inverters Threaten Power Grid StabilityResearchers from Forescout's Vedere Labs detected security shortcomings in the world’s leading solar inverters that could enable hackers to hijack solar energy production and destabilize power grids. Flaws include unauthorized remote access, insecure authentication and remote code execution.

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UK ICO Says Advanced's Security Measures 'Fell Seriously Short'A British IT service company must pay a 3.07 million pound fine for a 2022 ransomware hack that exposed medical records of tens of thousands of National Health Service patients. Hackers breached the Advanced system through a user account that did not have multifactor authentication in place.

Highly Targeted Ransomware Hit Traced to Long-Running Cyberespionage GroupA stealthy group of mercenary hackers active since 2018 appears to have diversified into hitting hypervisors with ransomware via highly targeted attacks. Researchers said they tracked the hit to a corporate espionage team tracked as RedCurl.

Audits Focus on HIPAA Security Rule Provisions Related to Ransomware, HackingFederal regulators have quietly resumed compliance audits of HIPAA-regulated organizations. With the surge in ransomware and other hacks reported in recent years, the focus of the audits are on provisions of the HIPAA security rule most relevant to these attacks, said a government official.

Large Health Data Breach Started With Phishing Lure in Employees' EmailTennessee-based Numotion, one of the largest U.S. providers of wheelchairs and other health-related mobility products is notifying nearly 500,000 people of a 2024 email hacking incident that potentially compromised their personal and health-related information.