Becker's Healthcare November 5, 2024
A new cyberthreat in healthcare is coming not from state-sponsored hackers or technologically sophisticated cybercriminal gangs — but from bored teens.
The latest generation of hackers has been dubbed “advanced persistent teenagers,” TechCrunch reported Nov. 1. Groups like Scattered Spider and Lapsus$ have been tricking IT help desks, including in healthcare, into giving up employees’ credentials.
“The trend that we’re seeing is really around insider threat,” Heather Gantt-Evans, chief information security officer of fintech card issuer Marqeta, said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Oct. 29. “It’s much … easier to manipulate your way in through a person than through hacking in with elaborate malware...
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