American Hospital Association October 9, 2023
The Department of Health and Human Services Oct. 6 urged health care organizations to patch a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Emergency Responder communications platform that allows a cyberattacker to completely compromise a vulnerable system and use it for further attacks across an enterprise network. HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recommends health care organizations identify vulnerable systems in their infrastructure and prioritize the software update.
“This is another example of cyber adversaries exploiting vulnerabilities in our mission-critical third-party technology to gain access to our networks,” said John Riggi,...