Becker's Healthcare November 9, 2022
HHS, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI have urged healthcare organizations to take certain actions to protect their systems from hacker groups who have been known to create cyberespionage campaigns aimed at exfiltrating data from hospitals and health systems.
Below are some of the cybergroups posing a threat to healthcare organizations:
- Russian hackers known as the Karakurt gang have targeted at least four healthcare organizations in the last three months. The Karakurt gang emerged in late 2021 and likely has ties to the Conti ransomware group.
The group steals data and threatens to auction it off on the dark web or release it to the public unless their demands are met. Most recently, the group targeted Methodist...
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