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A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email
'Wirte' Threat Actor Used Wiper That Checks if Victim Is Located in IsraelHackers likely connected to Palestinian militants Hamas were behind wiper attacks detected in October against Israeli organizations including hospitals and municipalities. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point on Tuesday attributed the attacks to a group tracked as Wirte.
Agency Spells Out Measures to Avoid Falling Victim to Costly SchemesHealthcare organizations should take steps to avoid falling victim to evolving threats involving costly business email compromise scams and related phishing schemes fueled by social engineering, warned the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center.
HHS: Bot-Driven Attacks Can Overwhelm Email Servers, Networks and Disrupt WorkflowFederal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of email bomb attacks, a type of denial-of-service attack that can overwhelm email systems and networks and distract victims from other nefarious activities. The incidents can also disrupt clinical and business workflow.
FBI Says It Received Most Attack Reports From Healthcare, Critical ManufacturingCybercrime reports submitted by victims to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center surged last year, and the total reported losses exceeded $12.5 billion. Investment fraud and business email compromise losses dominated, and ransomware attacks spared almost no critical infrastructure sector.
Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the "patient." The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged ten defendants for their alleged involvement in business email compromise (BEC) schemes targeting numerous victims across the country, including U.S. federal funding programs like Medicare and Medicaid. [...]