American Hospital Association January 31, 2024
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI Jan. 31 urged small office and home office router manufacturers to eliminate exploitable defects in their products and integrate security into their product design and development, citing recent reports that threat actors known as “Volt Typhoon” and associated with the People’s Republic of China are exploiting defects in these products to compromise networks across U.S. critical infrastructure.
“This alert highlights two critical and strategic cyber risk issues we are facing as a health care sector and as a nation,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “First, the ongoing strategic and aggressive cyber threat posed by the Chinese government to infiltrate our critical infrastructure and pre-position...