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 French Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information (ANSSI), is stating that a group of Russian military hackers, known as the Sandworm group, have been behind a three-years-long operation during which they breached the internal networks of several French entities running the…
Telecommunications company Singtel has stated it is investigating the impact of a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised customer data, after it ascertained on February 9, 2021 that files were taken by an unknown threat actor.
In January 2021, a relatively small number of vulnerabilities in common information systems relevant to the healthcare sector have been disclosed to the public however the ones that were released warrant attention.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response released a comprehensive and valuable resource to help hospitals and health systems effectively care for patients and maintain business practices and readiness should a cybersecurity incident…
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In this issue Hacking Healthcare takes another look at ransomware. Specifically, we analyze trends that emerged throughout the past year, data from the last quarter of 2020 and what it tells us about where things are headed, and why ransomware becoming less lucrative for cyber criminals may…
On 5 February 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a US water treatment plant. The cyber actors likely accessed the system by exploiting cyber security weaknesses including poor password security, and an…
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and AHA will host a Feb. 10 panel discussion on best practices to combat unlawful robocalls to hospitals.