UPMC Altoona found out about an unauthorized access to the email account of one doctor and the person possibly viewed or obtained the protected health information (PHI) of several patients. The medical center uncovered the phishing attack on February 13, 2020, shortly after the breach of the email account. The attacker used the account to …
FBI has released another notice subsequent to a rise in COVID-19 phishing scams aimed towards healthcare organizations. In the notification, the FBI points out that on March 18, 2020 network perimeter cybersecurity applications employed by US-based healthcare companies began uncovering COVID-19 phishing campaigns from local and international IP addresses and those activities are continuous. These …
Doctors Community Medical Center in Maryland sent notification to some patients concerning a breach of their PHI. The discovery of the data breach in January 2020 was due to a suspicious activity detected in its payroll system. A breach investigation verified that some employees got phishing emails in their inbox and were fooled into exposing …
Confido, a pharmacy benefits consulting company began mailing notification letters to 3,600 of its clients’ personnel, users, and their dependents concerning the probable access of some of their private data by an unauthorized person who acquired access to the email account of a worker. Confido discovered the breached email account on December 12, 2020 and …
Phishing Attacks on Healthcare Resource Group and Confido Exposed the PHI of Patients Read More »
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) found a medium severity vulnerability in the BD Pyxis MedStation medication dispensing system version 1.6.1 and in the anesthesia carts Pyxis Anesthesia (PAS) ES System. An attacker who exploits the vulnerability could gain access to sensitive information. BD devices utilize a software app implementation known as kiosk mode. During kiosk …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made it compulsory for lots of persons to self-isolate. Organizations are under rising pressure to permit their personnel to work from their home if possible. Though these actions are needed to keep men and women safe and avert infection, having numerous personnel working remotely raises cyber risk. If people work from …
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TigerConnect is a company in the U.S.A. offering the most popular secure healthcare communications platform. It announced that it is giving U.S. health systems and hospitals free use its platform to support COVID-19 associated communications throughout the coronavirus pandemic. TigerConnect is tracking COVID-19 and its impact on America’s healthcare system. With the fast coronavirus spread, …
Proofpoint researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign directed at healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical firms. The intercepted emails imitate Vanderbilt University Medical Center and assert to contain recent HIV test results. The subject line of the emails was “Test result of medical analysis.” A recipient must open an Excel spreadsheet attachment entitled TestResult.xlsb …
HIV Test Phishing Campaign Targets Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Companies Read More »
The University of Washington Medicine is facing a lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court with regards to a data breach that caused the exposure of patients’ protected health information (PHI). The filed lawsuit over a data breach in December 2018 was because of a misconfigured server. The PHI of 974,000 patients was potentially exposed …
UW Medicine Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 974,000-Record Data Breach Read More »
The new Vade Secure report unveiled the top 25 commonly impersonated brands in phishing attacks. The Phishers’ Favorite report for Q4 of 2019 stated that PayPal remains the most frequently impersonated label in phishing attacks, with 11,392 identified phishing web addresses in quarter 4. For two successive quarters, PayPal is leading the list. Recognition of …
New Report Unveils the Brand Names Most Often Impersonated by Phishers Read More »
