Iranian hackers targeted the Albanian Parliament using the No-Justice Wiper and other commonly used tools. Albania had severed diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal.
It's a new year, but federal regulators are beating an old HIPAA drum: The Department of Health and Human Services has hit a New Jersey medical practice with a $160,000 settlement in the agency's 46th enforcement action involving HIPAA complaint about right of access to health records.
Accenture has finalized its acquisition of U.K. tech consultancy firm 6point6, which specializes in cybersecurity, cloud and digital transformation solutions. The acquisition will add 6point6's 400 staffers to Accenture in support of its business in the U.K. market.
An upstate New York hospital group has filed a lawsuit against cybercriminal group LockBit in a legal maneuver aimed at forcing a Boston-based cloud services firm to turn over patient data LockBit had stolen from the entities last summer and allegedly stored on the tech company's servers.
Ukraine's security intelligence chief said Russian hackers had been responsible for severing internet access and mobile communications from telecom operator Kyivstar in December, after compromising the firm's network months ago. He said the "disastrous" cyberattack had wiped "almost everything."
This week, Orbit Chain lost $81 million in a New Year's Eve hack, Indonesian police shuttered bitcoin mining operations, dYdX named its attacker, $324,000 users fell victim to 2023 crypto phishing scams, Singapore's prime minister had a deepfake problem, and 2023 crypto losses decreased by over 50%.
There are many potential uses for generative AI at financial services firms, but few are more promising than those in the areas of risk and fraud, said Kristine Demareski, vice president of payments at Genpact, which is already harnessing AI to increase efficiencies in analysts' decision-making.
The court system of Victoria said it had experienced a serious cybersecurity incident in late 2023 that gave hackers access to video recordings of proceedings at multiple courts, including the Supreme Court and the County Court. The hack took place on Dec. 8 and was discovered two weeks later.
A hacking incident at a New Jersey-based vendor of artificial intelligence-enabled population health management services that involved a network server has affected more than a dozen of its healthcare clients across the country and nearly 4.5 million of their patients.
A defunct ambulance company is notifying nearly 912,000 patients and employees that their archived records were compromised in an early 2023 data theft hack. The firm previously provided emergency care in the Boston region and administrative services to affiliated transportation companies.
French IT firm Atos has confirmed it is in early-stage talks with Airbus to sell its cybersecurity unit for an estimated 1.8 billion euros, or 1.79 billion. The latest Airbus offer comes just six months after Airbus' unsuccessful bid for a minority stake in Atos Evidian.
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State regulators fined a New York hospital $300,000 to settle privacy violations related to the organization's prior use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portal. Regulators said the hospital violated HIPAA rules in sharing patient information with third parties for marketing purposes.
The European Central Bank beginning this month will conduct cyber stress tests on banks to determine their resilience against cyberattacks. The agency is requiring 109 banks in Europe to perform vulnerability assessments and incident response evaluations by mid-2024.
Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
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