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What's the Prescription for Cyber Resilience in Healthcare?

SecureWorld News

billing and electronic payment system operated by Change Healthcare, a big division of UnitedHealth Group, is only the latest, but maybe greatest, example. RELATED: Hospitals Seek Federal Help as Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Disrupts Payments ] The attack has left hundreds, if not thousands, of providers all over the U.S.

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CommScope Sensitive Employee Data Breached in Ransomware Incident

SecureWorld News

Hackers from the Vice Society ransomware operation managed to access CommScope's network and exfiltrate data backups from the company's intranet and customer portal. The trove of data was discovered April 14th on the Dark Web leak site of Vice Society, available for sale, an indication that ransom demands may not have been met by CommScope.

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Top 10 Malware Strains of 2021

SecureWorld News

The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware. Ursnif Ursnif is a banking Trojan that steals financial information. TrickBot TrickBot malware is often used to form botnets or enabling initial access for the Conti ransomware or Ryuk banking trojan.

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Dialog Enterprise: keeping the data of Sri Lanka’s enterprises safe and sovereign

CIO Business Intelligence

Based on VMware technology and featuring numerous capabilities, among them Container PaaS service, Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, the Dialog Enterprise Cloud is the choice of many of the country’s industry leaders.

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Common workplace security breaches and how to prevent them

Dataconomy

32% of online security professionals reported difficulties protecting attack surfaces, and another worrying statistic is the sharp increase in attacks on the healthcare industry. They then sell personally identifiable information such as credit card, banking, ID, and Social Security data with criminal syndicates.

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Alert: 'Imminent and Increasing Threat' as Wave of Ryuk Ransomware Hits Hospitals

SecureWorld News

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just issued a joint alert around this type of ransomware attack calling it an "increased and imminent threat" for hospitals and healthcare providers. ?? hospitals and healthcare providers. Trickbot, by the way, started as a banking trojan. October 29, 2020.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.