Jeff Lagasse reports: Industries are increasingly being sued by consumers for data breaches, but the sector with the biggest litigation increase is healthcare, according to new findings from the law firm BakerHostetler. In fact, healthcare comprises 23% of lawsuits due to data breaches. The next highest after that is business and professional services at 17%,…
Category: Of Note
‘JekyllBot:5’ Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Hacking of Hospital Robots
Eduard Kovacs reports: Cybersecurity researchers specializing in healthcare IoT systems have discovered five serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack Aethon’s TUG autonomous mobile robots. The TUG robots are used by hundreds of hospitals in North America, Europe and Asia to transport goods, materials and clinical supplies. Their role is to give staff…
LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months
Bill Toulas reports: A regional U.S. government agency compromised with LockBit ransomware had the threat actor in its network for at least five months before the payload was deployed, security researchers found. Logs retrieved from the compromised machines showed that two threat groups had compromised them and were engaged in reconnaissance and remote access operations….
RaidForums seized in Operation TOURNIQUET; forum’s administrator and two accomplices arrested
From Europol, today: The illegal marketplace ‘RaidForums’ has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of Operation TOURNIQUET, a complex law enforcement effort coordinated by Europol to support independent investigations of the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Portugal, and Romania. The forum’s administrator and two of his accomplices have…
Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Andy Greenberg reports: Early one fall morning in 2017, in a middle-class suburb on the outskirts of Atlanta, Chris Janczewski stood alone inside the doorway of a home he had not been invited to enter. Moments earlier, armed Homeland Security Investigations agents in ballistic vests had taken up positions around the tidy two-story brick house, banged…
HHS OCR Issues Annual HIPAA Reports to Congress
Chris Bennington of Epstein Becker Green writes, in part: The HITECH Act requires OCR to issue annual reports to Congress of HIPAA breaches and complaints received by OCR during the calendar year. For 2020, OCR reported that it received 656 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, 66,509 notifications of breaches affecting fewer than…