Becker's Healthcare October 29, 2024
Federal authorities are warning of a hacking collective targeting healthcare with artificial intelligence-enabled voice spoofing and voice phishing.
Scattered Spider has been in operation since 2022, deploying social engineering techniques to bypass security checks and infect computer systems with ransomware, according to an Oct. 24 notice from HHS’ Office of Information Security and the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center. The group’s tactics overlap with cybercriminals who call hospital IT help desks with “spearphishing” voice methods to divert payments from payer accounts to their own.
Scattered Spider’s hackers generally start with text phishing, phone calls to...
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