January 04, 2023 TLP:CLEAR Report: 202301041300 Executive Summary Clop operates under the Ransomware-as-service (RaaS) model, and it was first observed in 2019. Clop was a highly used ransomware in the market and typically targeted organizations with a revenue of $5 million U.S. Dollars (USD) or higher. Since its appearance, HC3 is aware of attacks on…
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University of Miami Health breach notice
Remember when Britton White and DataBreaches discussed employees having their work credentials compromised by infostealers and how employers might want to require employees to notify them whenever an employee’s device was compromised if the device had stored login credentials? University of Miami Health posted a breach notice this week that caught my eye. From the…
PA: Maternal & Family Health Services reveals ransomware incident
Maternal & Family Health Services (“MFHS”) in Pennsylvania has issued a press release about what they describe as a “sophisticated ransomware incident.” At this point, given so many ransomware attacks over the past few years, DataBreaches has no idea what would be considered “sophisticated.” In any event, MFHS began notifying potentially affected individuals, including certain…
Romanian hospital victim of ransomware attack
Radu Dumitrescu reports: The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, in northeastern Romania, was the target of a ransomware attack in December, and medical activity is still impacted. Hackers demanded 3 Bitcoin for the decryption of the data on the servers. The attack is similar to the one in the summer of 2019, when four…
HC3: Analyst Note: Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group ‘KillNet’ Threat to HPH Sector
December 22, 2022 TLP:CLEAR Report: 202212221500 Executive Summary HC3 is closely tracking hacktivist groups which have previously affected a wide range of countries and industries, including the United States Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. One of these hacktivist groups—dubbed ‘KillNet’—recently targeted a U.S. organization in the healthcare industry. The group is known to launch…
New Data Quantifies Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Providers
Hannah Neprash and Alan Z. Rozenshtein write: In a new JAMA Health Forum Original Investigation, we and our co-authors address this data gap. We have created the Tracking Healthcare Ransomware Events and Traits (THREAT) database, a comprehensive accounting of 374 ransomware attacks on U.S. healthcare delivery organizations from 2016-2021. To assemble this database we used…