Microsoft writes: The healthcare sector faces a rapidly increasing range of cybersecurity threats, with ransomware attacks emerging as one of the most significant. A combination of valuable patient data, interconnected medical devices, and small IT/cybersecurity operations staff, which spreads resources thin, can make healthcare organizations prime targets for threat actors. As healthcare operations become increasingly digitized—ranging…
Accused Iranian hackers successfully peddle stolen Trump emails
Christopher Bing, Raphael Satter and Gram Slattery report: The accused Iranian hacking group who intercepted Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign emails have finally found some success in getting their stolen material published after initially failing to interest the mainstream media. In recent weeks, the hackers began peddling Trump emails more widely to one…
American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show
Catherine Belton reports: A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and…
Carolina Arthritis hit by ThreeAm ransomware attack
On Thursday morning, ThreeAM added Carolina Arthritis to its leak site. Some ransomware groups add a listing, post some claims and a few screencaps, and then give the entity a deadline to pay up, or they leak a bit of data and then give the entity a final deadline. ThreeAM doesn’t seem to work that…
Indian court tells Star Health to share details of leak so Telegram can delete chatbots
Reuters reports: An Indian court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has told insurer Star Health to help Telegram identify data leaked via its messaging app so the chatbots can be deleted. The country’s biggest insurer with roughly $4 billion market cap approached the Madras High Court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu…
OnePoint Patient Care notifies almost 800,000 patients of August ransomware attack
On September 15, INC Ransom added OnePoint Patient Care to its leak site. The threat actors claimed to have encrypted the hospice dispensing pharmacy and pharmacy benefits management service’s files. It wasn’t long after that INC leaked all of the data. The Arizona-based provider notified HHS of the incident on October 14, reporting that 795,916…