Health IT Security February 5, 2021
Hackers are continuing to target and exploit the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain. Providers must leverage all risk mitigation to secure vulnerable technologies.
As the world races to vaccinate its citizens, providers, hospitals, and research teams have rapidly deployed technologies to support the COVID-19 response. In turn, cybercriminals are preying on the thinly stretched supply chain with swaths of cyberattacks and fraud schemes to steal valuable data and make a massive profit.
The US and other countries have already seen the damage these attackers can cause, from modifying data to manipulating appointment scheduling. The World Health Organization, several COVID-19-related research firms, and even the EU Medicines Agency (EMA) have already been targeted.
The successful attack on EMA led to the...
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