Nine months after a ransomware attack on health payment processing company Change Healthcare, the impact on medical practices, providers and patients continues to reverberate. The cyberattack saw the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary knocked offline, disrupting billions of dollars in payments and compromising sensitive information for millions of patients. Such breaches are feared to become more common and disruptive, given the healthcare sector’s wealth of money, sensitive data and personal information – all of which can be exploited by cybercriminals.
The first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux has been detected, so users beware
ESET researchers have revealed a first-of-its-kind Linux UEFI bootkit, named ‘Bootkitty’, which could pose a significant risk despite being in early stages of development. The
