Four US Senators have introduced the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 aiming to tackle healthcare cyberattacks and ransomware cases. The Act would provide grants to healthcare organizations with a focus on-underserved communities. This would improve their cybersecurity measures, regulations and response plans. The legislation comes following increased cyberattacks on the healthcare sector, costing an average of $10 million per breach.
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Security firm ESET has found the first known example of a Linux UEFI bootkit, a type of malware that infects the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
