June 24, 2024 TLP:CLEAR SUMMARY The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to disseminate known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in a social engineering campaign targeting healthcare, public health entities, and providers. Threat actors…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Cyber Attack on Synnovis Pathology Lab Traced to Longstanding Known Weaknesses at London Hospitals
Scott Ikeda writes: A cyber attack on London hospitals that has unfolded over the course of June has had a devastating impact on the city’s blood supply, and has caused hundreds of operations to be postponed. New reporting from Bloomberg indicates that the city’s hospitals have long known that Synnovis, the pathology lab at the center of…
BreachForums back online — or it is a honeypot? (UPDATED)
On June 12, BreachForums reappeared on clearnet and Tor. The owner — or someone with access to the forum owner’s account — interacted a bit in the ShoutBox and posted an announcement: Hello BreachForums users! Some wild stuff has gone down recently. First off, Spamhaus has blacklisted our SMTP host. Then, we ran into more…
Ascension Cybersecurity Event Update
Posted June 12 on Ascension’s website: “We have made progress in our investigation and recovery with the help of third-party cybersecurity experts. At this point, we now have evidence that indicates that the attackers were able to take files from a small number of file servers used by our associates primarily for daily and routine…
RansomHouse: investigation and findings by Analyst1
Analyst1 has published a report on RansomHouse: RansomHouse: Stolen Data Market, Influence Operations & Other Tricks Up the Sleeve. The Executive Summary of the report by Anastasia Sentsova begins: This research aims to identify connections between RansomHouse, and other groups based on the investigation of multiple crossclaims of victims. Emerging after the Babuk source code…
70,000 Adventist Health Tulare patients being notified of HIPAA breach by payment collections associate
Adventist Health Tulare has issued a press release about a breach at a business associate in Nebraska. The June 7 press release states, “A data security incident was recently discovered by Signature Performance, an agency working on behalf of Adventist Health Tulare to collect payment for services.” Their investigation determined that an unknown party accessed…