Carl Campanile reports: New York state lawmakers have promised to make helping local governments, schools and hospitals protect against cyber ransomware attacks a top priority during the 2023 legislative session. It comes after a wave of such attacks hit institutions across the Empire State, with the computer systems of a major Brooklyn hospital network and those of the Suffolk County…
Category: Health Data
Home Care Providers of Texas discloses ransomware incident affecting more than 124,000
Home Care Providers of Texas (DPP II, LLC), has disclosed a ransomware incident to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. According to their notification, unnamed threat actors accessed patient information between June 25 and June 29. The breach was detected on June 29 when files were encrypted. In addition to encrypting some files, the threat actors…
TX: West Oaks Eyecare discloses malware incident
On November 7, West Oaks Eyecare in Texas discovered one of their computer systems had been encrypted by malware. Their investigation into the incident indicated that the threat actor(s) may have accessed patient billing information: We thoroughly reviewed the files involved to determine what information they contained. Based on our review, we identified files that…
Toronto hospital network issues ‘code grey’ as digital systems go down
Liam Casey reports: A major Toronto hospital network said its digital systems went down on Monday and it was working to investigate what was causing the outage. The University Health Network issued a “code grey” — a hospital code for system failure — but released few other details about what happened. Read more at CBC….
Consulate Health Care chain hit by Hive
Hive ransomware gang has added another healthcare-related victim to its leak site. This time, the victim is Consulate Health Care (CHC), a chain of service providers with a troubled financial history. Enter Hive, Stage Left Hive’s listing for CHC indicates that they locked CHC’s files on December 3. Hive has already leaked some of what…
HC3: Analyst Note: Clop Ransomware
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…