Phillina Lai, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at IKS Health
While digitalization has revolutionized healthcare delivery, patients now entrust clinicians with sensitive health information under the expectation that it will remain private and protected. This…
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This fragmentation can lead to blind spots, and in healthcare, where protected health information (PHI) is a prime target, that’s a dangerous gap to leave unguarded.
As systems expand into the cloud, the attack surface…
Healthcare Cyber Resilience in 2025: Why “Good” Isn’t Good EnoughBy Chad Alessi
Chad Alessi, MS, MBA is managing director of cybersecurity at CTG.
Ninety-two percent of healthcare organizations have experienced at least one cyberattack in the…
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Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Targets Microsoft Credentials
A new widespread phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft Office 365 credentials using advanced layering and numbering techniques to evade detection systems. According to security services firm Fortra, attackers are…
Attackers are constantly testing new combinations of tactics to improve their success rates, such as a recently discovered and widespread phishing scam that uses layering and numbering techniques to hide its nefarious script and…
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Generative artificial intelligence is making it easier to harvest credentials. Phishing emails written by generative AI had a click-through rate of 54%, compared with 12% for those written manually, per the report.In one instance,…
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With the increasing digital transformation of healthcare and improvements in the quality of data, IT systems in healthcare are becoming an increasingly attractive target for malicious actors. A cyberattack can cripple an institution, cause…
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Why Healthcare Systems Are Targeted
Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, says an organization’s biggest vulnerability is simply being in the healthcare industry.
“The amount of key data within these organizations is a…
The Security Incident
A phishing attack between April-June 2019 compromised eight employee email accounts at Solara Medical Supplies, exposing sensitive data of 114,000+ individuals.
Impact and Information Exposed
Names
Social Security numbers
Bank details
Patient login credentials
Medical diagnoses
Contact information
Investigation Findings
HHS…
Understanding the Communication Security Challenge
Healthcare organizations routinely make outbound calls to patients, yet unlike in-person visits, patients have no reliable way to verify the caller’s authenticity. This vulnerability creates opportunities for fraudsters to exploit…
