President Biden recently alerted the nation about increased cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Healthcare organizations must stay vigilant and adapt to new attack techniques including ransomware and destructive malware designed to wipe out systems and applications. Listen in as we discuss the latest ransomware and destructive malware attacks and provide recommendations to protect healthcare organizations from the escalating cyberwar.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published an insightful ‘lessons learned’ document that chronicles a large-scale ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) of Ireland. This blog provides a summary of the ransomware event, insights from HHS, and analysis and recommendations from Meditology based on our experience with helping healthcare organizations prevent and respond to ransomware attacks.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published an insightful ‘lessons learned’ document that chronicles a large-scale ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive (HSE) of Ireland [1]. The HSE is Ireland's…
Blog Post by Kevin Sacco, Ethical Hacking Leader at Meditology Services Ransomware attacks seem to have no end in sight. Many healthcare security leaders are seeing their friends and peer organizations get infected, their vendors are getting infected…
The FBI recently announced a potentially significant ransomware attack on the healthcare sector. Ransomware groups are becoming more sophisticated and efficient in their ability to deploy ransomware attacks. The challenges presented by COVID-19 have only increased the…
October 29, 2020 - ATLANTA, GA - Meditology Services has been advised of a credible and imminent ransomware attack on the US healthcare system from an eastern European criminal group. The FBI, HHS, DHS, the CISA,…
Strengthening Medical Device Resiliency and Supply Chain Risk Preparedness in Clinical Settings
by Jonathan Elmer Medical devices are essential to patient care, from lifesaving implantable devices, to advanced diagnostic tools and clinical applications. However, IT and cybersecurity events including disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and power outages…
By Nadia Fahim Koster In today's digital battleground, where the frontier lies not in geographical borders but in the vast expanse of cyberspace, leadership within healthcare organizations has found itself in a unique position. Cybersecurity…