American Hospital Association November 3, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services recently released an advisory to help health care organizations protect their systems and networks from 8Base, a ransomware and data extortion gang targeting small- and medium-sized organizations in health care and other sectors. Recommendations include prioritizing cybersecurity best practices, from regularly updating and patching systems to educating employees to avoid and report phishing emails and malicious attachments.

“This emerging ransomware group appears primarily focused on data extortion rather than data encryption at this point,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “Their rapid rise and large number of attacks indicates this group may be a rebranding of a former group or contain elements...

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