Health IT Security November 15, 2023
The federal government urged organizations to prioritize remediate known vulnerabilities, segment networks, and enable multifactor authentication to lower the risk of Rhysida ransomware.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) to outline the risks of Rhysida ransomware.
The authoring entities urged organizations to take immediate action to reduce risk, such as remediating known vulnerabilities and implementing multifactor authentication (MFA).
As previously reported, Rhysida ransomware operates as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that emerged in May 2023, using phishing attacks and other tactics to gain network access and drop malicious payloads. HHS released a threat brief about the variant in August 2023,...