American Hospital Association September 16, 2022
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting health care payment processors to redirect payments intended for health care providers to accounts they control, costing victims millions of dollars, the FBI reported this week. The alert describes at least 68 attacks since June 2018 in which unknown cyber criminals used publicly available personally identifiable information and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and access accounts; and recommends actions to help network defenders reduce the risk of compromise.
“This type of scheme, also commonly known as business email compromise (BEC), which uses a combination of email phishing and voice...