Healthcare IT News October 18, 2023
Andrea Fox

CISA highlights five recently detected vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog and creates a new list of misconfigurations and weaknesses known to be used in ransomware campaigns, and HC3 warns about NoEscape ransomware.

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, warned this week about a new ransomware that has a shared encryption feature designed to entice ransomware with the promise of streamlined data recovery. Meanwhile, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gave other federal agencies until the end of the month to address five specific exploits uncovered on Patch Tuesday. These alerts are just two of the healthcare cybersecurity trends we’re watching this week.

NoEscape ransomware and shared encryption

HC3 said in its October 12 analyst note that NoEscape...

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