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Cyber gangs hold healthcare ransom
Cybercriminal groups have now completely abandoned any pretense that theirs are basically victimless crimes by attacking the healthcare sector with increasing ruthlessness. Healthcare, once said to be off limits to ‘responsible’ cyber criminals, is now the subject of an urgent warning from the Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. “HC3 has recently observed threat actors employing advanced social engineering tactics to target IT help desks in the health sector and gain initial access to target organizations,” the warning states. Tactics include contacting an organization’s IT help desk with phone calls from a familiar area code and claiming to be an employee in a financial role.