The FBI successfully dismantled the Qakbot malware, which had infected over 700,000 computers worldwide, including 200,000 in the US, causing significant financial losses. Using an innovative technique, they severed computers from the botnet and…
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WHY IT MATTERSUsing command-and-control infrastructure to carry out attacks globally, Qakbot enabled the most prolific ransomware groups to cause losses in the hundreds of millions, said FBI Director Christopher Wray in an announcement August…
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The Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities advisory published this month by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, provides details on the common vulnerabilities and exposures routinely and frequently exploited. In 2022, cyber actors exploited older software…
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By Jill McKeon
July 10, 2023 – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)…
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By Jill McKeon
June 28, 2023 – The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center’s (HC3) latest analyst note details the threat of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning, which is increasingly being used against the healthcare sector.
SEO poisoning…
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This week, Nubeva Technologies, which develops decryption tools focused on ransomware, published a case study describing how it was able to help one small hospital untangle a ransomware attack that had affected its IT systems.WHY IT…
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The Health Policy Partnership has published a new report highlighting the role of cloud technology to address the current challenges faced by patients and health systems. Our health in the cloud: exploring the evolving role…
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The following is a guest article by Bala Kumar, Chief Product Officer at Jumio
The list of responsibilities for a CISO in healthcare is constantly growing. Today’s threat landscape requires them to plan for ransomware…
By Jill McKeon
May 12, 2023 – The internet has a bot problem, cybersecurity company Imperva suggested in its 2023 Bad Bot Report. Nearly half of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022, while human…
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Nicko van Someren, Chief Technology Officer at Absolute SoftwareIn IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report, the company revealed that the global average cost of a data breach was $4.35 million. In the…
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