Category: cybersecurity

Hackers have upped their cyberattacks on the healthcare supply chain, putting hospitals and health systems in a position to respond.

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency partnered with the FBI to recommend new mitigation tactics to combat BlackSuit ransomware attacks, which have spread across the healthcare industry.

Cybercrime is akin to a  “chronic disease” that must be managed through increased safeguards and federal collaboration, the American Hospital Association’s chief executive wrote Aug. 8.

An organization that supplies blood to hundreds of hospitals is back to normal operations following a July 29 ransomware attack.

A convicted hospital hacker wasn’t involved in the recent U.S.-Russia prisoner swap but could be part of a future exchange, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 7.

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth identified unusual computer system activity July 31 and took action to contain the issue, according to an Aug. 3 post on Bayhealth’s Facebook account.

HHS has suspended sanctions and penalties for specific violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, offering hospitals in the path of Tropical Storm Debby greater flexibility in their response efforts.

McLaren Health Care confirmed the Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a “criminal cyberattack,” and the health system is continuing to restore its IT and phone systems.

An organization that supplies blood to hundreds of hospitals in the Southeast said it was a victim of a ransomware attack. 

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago did not pay a ransom after it was targeted by hackers, ABC affiliate WLS reported Aug. 6.