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And one of those basics is focusing on sectors where a ransomware disruption creates immediate pressure to pay up, like with healthcare.
Dutch healthcare software vendor ChipSoft has been impacted by a ransomware attack that forced the company to take offline its website and digital services for patients and healthcare providers. [...]
ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioning A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.…
A chief medical information officer describes what hospitals face when they inevitably suffer a ransomware attack—whether it leads to short- or long-term outages.
University of Mississippi Medical Center is still scrambling to respond to a ransomware attack last Thursday
Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…
Experts Pointing a Finger at Interlock Ransomware Gang for Kettering Health AttackOhio-based Kettering Health is in its second day responding to a cyberattack that's disrupted patient care services and downed its IT systems, including its patient portal and phones. Some cybersecurity insiders say Interlock ransomware is responsible.
Kettering Health, a healthcare network that operates 14 medical centers in Ohio, was forced to cancel inpatient and outpatient procedures following a cyberattack that caused a system-wide technology outage. [...]
Biden-Era Cyber Aid Programs Are Still Available, But Future is UncertainEven though rural hospitals and other small healthcare providers don't have deep pockets, cybercriminals continue to target them with ransomware, often causing serious disruption and compromises affecting large swaths of patients. What can be done to help them strengthen cybersecurity?
So far, medical devices affected in ransomware attacks have mostly been a casualty of IT networks being taken offline. But the potential nightmare scenario is a targeted device attack in which cybercriminals threaten to kill patients, said Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of consulting firm CyberSolutionsMD.
Ransomware Attack Taught Lessons on Health Sector Resiliency, Vendor RedundancyIt's been one year since hackers attacked IT services provider Change Healthcare, quickly shutting down critical processes for thousands healthcare entities, triggering a data breach affecting 190 million people. So what top lessons are emerging from that massive disruption and data compromise?
400 hospitals and med centers across 15 states rely on its products New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is currently in its fifth day of handling a ransomware attack that has led to system disruption.…
IT Outage, Downtime Procedures Affecting Services at California Healthcare ProviderCybercriminals claim they stole 17 million patient records from a southern California regional healthcare provider that is still struggling with IT and phone systems outages that have been disrupting patient care since the organization was hit by a ransomware attack on Dec. 1.
Artivion, a leading manufacturer of heart surgery medical devices, has disclosed a November 21 ransomware attack that disrupted its operations and forced it to take some systems offline. [...]
Until C-level executives fully understand potential threats and implement effective mitigation strategies, healthcare organizations will remain vulnerable and at risk of disruption.
Change Healthcare’s $2 billion recovery is still a work in progress Still reeling from its February ransomware attack, Change Healthcare confirms its clearinghouse services are back up and running, almost exactly nine months since the digital disruption began.…
Memorial Hospital and Manor Tapping Its Experience Dealing With Downtime ProceduresA small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
When a large hospital in an urban area is shut down by ransomware, the disruption can be significant, but when a rural hospital faces a similar cyber outage, the impact on patient safety and the community can be extreme, said Nitin Natarajan of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Nearby Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's IT Systems Also Still OfflineNearly three weeks after a ransomware attack, UMC Health System has restored electronic health records, but the Texas-based public health system is still working to recover other patient care IT systems. Nearby Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is still dealing with a related outage.
Nearby College's Health Sciences Center Is Also Experiencing an IT OutageUniversity Medical Center, a Lubbock, Texas-based public health system that includes a level-one trauma center and a children's hospital, is diverting ambulances and working to restore an IT outage affecting some patient services in the wake of a ransomware attack late last week.