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.

Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware
Kaspersky has identified thousands of low-cost Android smartphones sold online that come with preinstalled malware programmed to steal cryptocurrency details. The devices are infected with