Mark Edwards, chief information security officer at Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) has predicted that cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure are likely to increase due to global conflict.Speaking at the NHS Confed…
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More than 1,134 elective procedures and 2,194 outpatient appointments have been postponed at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust since a cyber attack on 3 June…
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Cyber criminals have published patient data online which they claim was stolen as part of an attack on Synnovis, NHS England has confirmed. The ransomware attack by Russian cyber criminal group Qilin, which took place…
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US non-profit health system Ascension has confirmed that its electronic health record (EHR) system has been restored across all of its sites following a ransomware incident last month. The Catholic health system’s EHR and various…
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Since first appearing two years ago, the ransomware group Black Basta has rapidly gained prominence as one of the biggest threats to healthcare organizations’ cybersecurity.
The cybergang is believed to be an offshoot of the…
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NHS Dumfries and Galloway has warned almost 150,000 patients to assume that at least some of their personal data is likely to have been stolen and published online following a major cyber attack earlier…
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More than 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were rearranged in the week following a cyber attack on pathology service provider Synnovis.The ransomware attack, which took place on 3 June 2024, disrupted pathology…
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Ascension restores EHR access across its organization, although it once again warns patients that it is still back-entering data that was collected manually since the May 8 ransomware attack.
Remediation of other systems…
Healthcare organizations are paying much more attention to cybersecurity in recent months, especially after Change Healthcare experienced a ransomware attack that debilitated its systems and disrupted claims payments nationwide and Ascension has been digging out from its…
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Ascension provides updates about its May 8 ransomware attack:
The cyberattack was launched by an malicious email that was opened by an unsuspecting employee.
The attackers took information from file services that employees use for…
