I recently came across an article stating that ransomware attacks targeting healthcare organizations surged following the Change Healthcare incident. For a quick recap, the Change Healthcare attack crippled the filling of prescriptions and other healthcare operations...
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More Real-World Impact: Hospitals Divert Due to Ransomware
In another "real-world impact" story: Hospitals in multiple states are impacted by a ransomware attack against their parent company, Ardent Health. Ardent operates 37 healthcare facilities across the United States. On and after Thanksgiving, multiple local news...
US Housing Market Hit by Threat Actors
Two recent incidents have caught my attention, and they're impacting the housing market in a real way at this stage. Mr. Cooper is a loan servicer that claims to have over 4.3 million customers. They experienced an attack around Halloween. And, more recently,...
There’s Always Another Attack Vector
Microsoft recently made a big jump in the security of the Office suite by finally blocking macros by default! However, when we plug one hole, threat actors will simply find a new hole, and thus the cycle shall continue.