The widespread use and unidentified nature of cryptocurrencies are triggering financial, legal, and moral hurdles that make healthcare organizations prime targets for cyber thugs, according to David Hoffman, the chief legal officer of Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center. The center has recently launched a legal battle against the ransomware group LockBit. Honestly, it infuriates me that we, as a worldwide community, have not only accepted but also advocated for the presence of anonymity in digital currency transactions,” he expressed during a discussion …
Category: Data Breaches
The federal government is alerting about potential attacks on healthcare businesses that are utilizing ConnectWise’s remote access tool, ScreenConnect. In 2023, cybercriminals breached a locally hosted version of this tool, …
The central governing body of Switzerland, located in Bern, has confirmed that several Swiss federal departments were affected by distributed denial-of-service assaults on Wednesday. These cyber-attacks resulted in short-term outages …
An impending global cybercrime agreement, slated for its last phase of discussions at the United Nations on Monday, faced severe criticism from civic groups. They argue that it threatens to …
A Russian individual has been handed a prison term of five years and four months by an American federal court. The sentence is in response to his involvement in the …
The potential agreement between Merck & Co. and their insurers concerning a $1.4 billion demand stemming from the NotPetya assault will redefine how the insurance sector phrases their war exclusion …
For even an entity as large as the federal government, a loss of $7.5 million due to cyberattacks is quite a hefty sum. There’s a buzz of speculation surrounding the …
The Reign of Evasive Language in Most Data Breach Alerts Isn’t it a rare day when we don’t receive a new batch of data breach alerts? Some firms, at least, …