Healthcare IT News February 29, 2024
Federal agencies confirm, in the wake of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, that healthcare organizations have been targeted since the DOJ announced the seizure of the cyberterror gang’s infrastructure in December.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services revised its joint ALPHV Blackcat cybersecurity alert Tuesday to disseminate new indicators of compromise observed this month.
Also, Blackcat has allegedly claimed that it exfiltrated 6T bytes of Change Healthcare data and denied using the ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability to gain access.
WHY IT MATTERS
The battle continues between ALPHV Blackcat and U.S. cyber defenses as healthcare takes on the heaviest attacks in response to a U.S.-led law enforcement operation that hacked...