Fierce Health Payers April 1, 2020
Microsoft is warning hospitals that sophisticated ransomware attacks are trying to exploit remote workers to gain access to their networks.
As healthcare organizations move their non-essential employees to work remotely during the COVID pandemic, ransomware operators are trying to find vulnerabilities in network devices like gateway and virtual private network (VPN) appliances.
Through Microsoft’s network of threat intelligence sources, the tech giant identified several dozen hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN appliances in their infrastructure, Microsoft’s Threat Protection Intelligence Team wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
The company sent targeted notifications to these hospitals with information about the vulnerabilities, how attackers can take advantage of them, and a strong recommendation to apply security updates that will protect them...
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