American Hospital Association October 7, 2022
The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI yesterday urged U.S. critical infrastructure and other organizations to take certain actions to protect their systems from known vulnerabilities that China state-sponsored actors continue to exploit to target intellectual property and sensitive networks. In a separate presentation, the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday warned health care organizations that threat actors are increasingly using legitimate network security tools for malicious purposes.
“As we have seen from previous government warnings and previous cyberattacks, hackers associated with the Chinese government continue to target health care in the United States,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “These cyber-espionage campaigns...