US hospitals are facing an increasing number of cyberattacks, due to the large amount of valuable patient information they store. These attacks, which often aim to extract ransom money, can provide hackers with a comprehensive picture of an individual. Healthcare providers that experience or suspect a data breach are legally obliged to notify their patients.

MuddyWater Hackers Using Custom Malware With Multi-Stage Payloads and Uses Cloudflare to Mask Fingerprints
Since early 2025, cybersecurity teams have observed a marked resurgence in operations attributed to MuddyWater, an Iranian state–sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actor. Emerging initially