American Hospital Association June 21, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) this week released an advisory about Qilin, formerly “Agenda,” a ransomware-as-a-service group targeting health care and other industries worldwide. The group was observed recruiting affiliates in late 2023, and has variants written in Golang and Rust, HC3 said. Qilin is known to gain initial access through spear phishing, as well as leveraging remote monitoring and management and other common tools in cyberattacks. The group is also known to practice double extortion. HC3 said the group’s targeting appears to be opportunistic rather than targeted.
“According to HC3 and open-source information, the Qilin Russian-connected ransomware group was implicated in the recent ransomware attack against a UK-based blood pathology...
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