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A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient. (US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sara Eshleman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) In a newly published strategic analysis report, the CyberPeace Institute this week conveyed the exacting toll that cyberattacks are taking on the health care industry, especially the human impact on health care staffers, patients and society. In response, the non-profit has offered a glimpse into its work-in-progress “Accountability Framework,” designed to help relevant health care stakeholders take responsibility for keeping cyberspace secure by...

Microsoft Exchange attack timeline (Source: ESET) Serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange have been exploited by at least 10 advanced persistent threat groups that have been collectively been hitting thousands of companies over the last three months, security researchers warn. Full details of the attacks and groups involved - when known - have been released by researchers at Slovakia-based security firm ESET. They say at least several APT groups also began attacks that exploit the flaws, prior to Jan. 5, which is when Microsoft says it first learned about the vulnerabilities. "This sugg...

If ransomware and data exfiltration attacks that targeted hospitals and vaccine researchers during the pandemic signaled a cyber hygiene crisis in health care, the SolarWinds supply chain attack demonstrated just how deep the problem goes.

Application Security Startup Snyk Raises $300M To Go Global Snyk plans to use some of its Series E proceeds to build out go-to-market teams in Australia, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore and has quadrupled its valuation since the start of 2020 to $4.7 billion. By Michael Novinson March 10, 2021, 10:40 AM EST Snyk has closed its Series E funding round on a monster $4.7 billion valuation as the red-hot startup looks to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific. The Boston-based application security vendor plans to use some of the proceeds to build out ...

SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it calls Spiral. Back on December 22, 2020, Microsoft disclosed that a second espionage group may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a persistent backdoor called ...