The biannual Horizon Report, released by Fortified Health Security, has highlighted rising cybersecurity threats in healthcare. The report discusses typical challenges faced by healthcare organizations such as budget and talent shortages, growing use of AI in hospitals, and increasing third-party risk management. It also notable that patient records exposed in 2024 rose by 9% to 183 million, with healthcare clearinghouses seeing a 2,000% increase in cyber-attacks. Furthermore, network servers remained the most common breach location, and phishing via email breaches grew by 18% in 2024.
FBI to ‘remove’ this nasty malware that’s affected 2.5 million PCs
The FBI has contained a Chinese-origin malware named PlugX that infiltrated USB drives and 2.5 million devices worldwide. The agency used a court order to
