Health IT Security September 25, 2023
By Jill McKeon

HC3 shed light on the tactics of North Korean and Chinese cyber threat actors that pose a risk to the healthcare sector, such as APT43 and APT41.

The US healthcare sector has long faced cyber threats from all directions, from insider threats to foreign state-sponsored adversaries. In its latest threat brief, the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) narrowed its focus to North Korean and Chinese cyber threats, exploring the ways in which cyber criminals from these countries target healthcare.

“Chinese and North Korean ‘cybercriminal groups’ act as unique threats to the U.S. health sector,” the threat brief stated.

“China and North Korea are both significant cyber powers – China in absolute terms and North Korea in relative terms....

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