Cybersecurity
Cyber Threat Intelligence, Alerts and Reports
As part of the AHA’s commitment to helping hospitals and health systems prepare for and prevent cyber threats, we have gathered the latest government cyber threat intelligence and alerts and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) reports.
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Cybersecurity & Risk Advisory
Learn how AHA can help hospitals and health systems prepare for and mitigate cyber threats through the expertise of John Riggi, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk.
The Emotet botnet, administered by the cybercrime group TA542, emerged from a five-month hiatus on July 13, 2020.
The Emotet botnet, administered by the cybercrime group TA542, emerged from a five-month hiatus on July 13, 2020. Emotet, the number one malware of 2019, infects new devices by enticing victims to execute malicious macros embedded in Microsoft Word documents. Once infected, the devices may be…
What is the Dark Web?
The FBI seeks to inform US companies in the healthcare, chemical, and finance sectors of potential targeting activity by the Chinese government against their business and operational components based in China.
Cyber criminals could exploit vulnerabilities in electronic logging devices (ELDs), which became required equipment in most commercial trucking operations as of 16 December 2019 due to a federal regulatory mandate.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted two People’s Republic of China (PRC) cyber actors for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of trade secrets, intellectual property, and other high-value information from biotechnical, commercial, and government victims in the United States and…
Thanos ransomware, first noted in January 2020, is unremarkable apart from the RIPlace anti-ransomware evasion technique that is available as one of its paid-for features.
Ransomware attacks on hospitals are “threat-to-life crimes” because they directly threaten a hospital’s ability to provide patient care, writes John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk.
In recent days, a significant number of vulnerabilities in common information systems relevant to the healthcare sector have been disclosed to the public. These vulnerabilities are from Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Cisco and Google, as well as others.
This edition of Hacking Healthcare explores the full scope of China’s intelligence gathering
operations against healthcare entities in the United States and its allies in the wake of COVID-19 and outlines some practical and inexpensive ways to boost security.