• Latest
  • Trending
Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks

Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks

May 5, 2020
Most systematic movers in Toronto for commercial offices

Most systematic movers in Toronto for commercial offices

January 13, 2021

Are You Using the Right Products Around the House?

January 6, 2021
Tips for Defending Yourself in a Personal Injury Case

Tips for Defending Yourself in a Personal Injury Case

December 21, 2020
Signs that a Company is in Trouble

Signs that a Company is in Trouble

December 21, 2020
How To Get Help Marketing Your Thai Website

How To Get Help Marketing Your Thai Website

December 20, 2020
Common Jobs for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

Common Jobs for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

December 16, 2020
Where to Buy Sunglasses Near You

Where to Buy Sunglasses Near You

December 14, 2020
 A Handful of Killer SEO Tips Your Website Needs Now!

Ways to Get More Traffic from Guest Blogging

December 1, 2020
What is Corporate Compliance? How it Impacts Business?

What is Corporate Compliance? How it Impacts Business?

November 13, 2020

Careers In The Health Field That Don’t Require Med School

November 4, 2020
The Basics of Casino Games

The Basics of Casino Games

November 4, 2020
How Much Money Can You Really Earn By Playing Casino Games?

How Much Money Can You Really Earn By Playing Casino Games?

November 3, 2020
  • Home
  • Business World
  • International News
  • Press Release
  • Science & Environment
  • Tech Space
  • Tips & Advice
    • Automotive
    • Education
    • Finance
    • Health
    • Legal
    • Travel
Sunday, January 17, 2021
-18 °c
World News Mania
Advertisement
  • Home
  • Business World
    Most systematic movers in Toronto for commercial offices

    Most systematic movers in Toronto for commercial offices

    How To Get Help Marketing Your Thai Website

    How To Get Help Marketing Your Thai Website

    What is Corporate Compliance? How it Impacts Business?

    What is Corporate Compliance? How it Impacts Business?

    Doing A Background Check: Factors That Can Cause Delays

    Doing A Background Check: Factors That Can Cause Delays

    Simplifying Compliance Automation: The Future Is Here!

    Simplifying Compliance Automation: The Future Is Here!

    Choosing Your Options for the Perfect Wealth Making

    Choosing Your Options for the Perfect Wealth Making

    How can workforce diversity help improve profitability?

    How can workforce diversity help improve profitability?

    Udyam Registration in India

    Udyam Registration in India

    How to Transform Pallets of Merch Into a Successful Small Business

    How to Transform Pallets of Merch Into a Successful Small Business

  • International News
    5 Pet-Friendly Cities in America to Call Home

    5 Pet-Friendly Cities in America to Call Home

    Tips to Search for a better Venture Capital Investment

    Tips to Search for a better Venture Capital Investment

    Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks

    Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks

    Prosecutors In El Salvador Are Going After A Woman Tried Twice For Having A Stillbirth

    Prosecutors In El Salvador Are Going After A Woman Tried Twice For Having A Stillbirth

    Google Trips – A Travel Planner App By Google has shut down

    Google Trips – A Travel Planner App By Google has shut down

  • Press Release
    MediaOne has been chosen among the Top 3 SEO Companies in Singapore by TopSEO

    MediaOne has been chosen among the Top 3 SEO Companies in Singapore by TopSEO

    Math Academy Announces New Batches For JC Maths In Singapore

  • Science & Environment
  • Tech Space
     A Handful of Killer SEO Tips Your Website Needs Now!

    Ways to Get More Traffic from Guest Blogging

    Why should you make the most of the Free TFIDF SEO Tool?

    Why should you make the most of the Free TFIDF SEO Tool?

    Find Social Accounts With Email Addresses

    Find Social Accounts With Email Addresses

     A Handful of Killer SEO Tips Your Website Needs Now!

     A Handful of Killer SEO Tips Your Website Needs Now!

    Find Profiles By Mobile Number

    Find Profiles By Mobile Number

    5 Helpful Android Apps For Anyone Who Struggles With Money Every Month

    5 Helpful Android Apps For Anyone Who Struggles With Money Every Month

    5 Android Financial Apps That Will Repair Your Unhealthy Relationship With Money

    5 Android Financial Apps That Will Repair Your Unhealthy Relationship With Money

    4 Less Obvious WordPress Mistakes That Can Kill Your Blog

    4 Less Obvious WordPress Mistakes That Can Kill Your Blog

    Top High Tech Features and Gadgets for Offices That Will Save You Time and Money

    Top High Tech Features and Gadgets for Offices That Will Save You Time and Money

  • Tips & Advice
    • All
    • Automotive
    • Education
    • Event
    • Fashion
    • Finance
    • Health
    • Home
    • Learning
    • Legal
    • Life
    • Pet
    • Relationship
    • Shopping
    • Travel
    • Wedding

    Are You Using the Right Products Around the House?

    Tips for Defending Yourself in a Personal Injury Case

    Tips for Defending Yourself in a Personal Injury Case

    Signs that a Company is in Trouble

    Signs that a Company is in Trouble

    Common Jobs for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

    Common Jobs for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners

    Where to Buy Sunglasses Near You

    Where to Buy Sunglasses Near You

    Careers In The Health Field That Don’t Require Med School

    What to Know About Hemorrhages?

    What to Know About Hemorrhages?

    Four ways to create a professional scalping strategy

    Four ways to create a professional scalping strategy

    Home loan spotlight: The Real Deal Home Loan

    Home loan spotlight: The Real Deal Home Loan

    • Automotive
    • Education
    • Finance
    • Health
    • Legal
    • Travel
No Result
View All Result
World News Mania
No Result
View All Result
Home International News

Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks

mm by Matthew Boulware
May 5, 2020
in International News, News, Tech Space
0
Technology Alert: Healthcare Workers Target of Startling New Ransomware Attacks
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a terrible trend: cyberattacks targeting health care employees. It’s an insidious and reprehensible attack on some of the most valued and stressed segments of the workforce, part of an alarming increase in attacks that prey on fear and concerns about the pandemic and economic crisis.

Healthcare IT services professional Don Baham from Kraft Technology Group warns healthcare professionals about the next wave of cyberthreats during and post COVID19.

What Cyberattacks Target Healthcare Workers?

The latest hacking attack is called NetWalker and is a variant of ransomware called Mailto.

Netwalker targets government agencies and enterprise companies. The white-hat group MalwareHunterTeam found an attachment as part of a coronavirus phishing scheme that installs the Netwalker ransomware. In March, hackers attacked the Champaign Urbana Public Health District, an Illinois public health agency covering 210,000 people.

The ransomware attack hit just as the COVID-19 pandemic was escalating and thousands of people were looking for health guidance. The district had to create an alternate website to continue to provide information.

How Does Netwalker Attack Websites?

Netwalker appears to hide in plain sight. It uses a technique known as process hollowing, in which it acts like a legitimate process using the Windows explorer.exe program. This process helps Netwalker evade common anti-virus software, whitelisting and signature-based detection.

The campaign uses an attachment called “CORONAVIRUS_COVID-19.vbs.” Like in most successful phishing campaigns, users who click on the file believing it contains valuable health information instead launch the malware attack.

The attachment contains an executable file and carefully hidden code that’s extracted and launched on the infected computer. Once the script launches, it saves another executable file in a temp folder. Once launched, the ransomware encrypts files and adds a random extension to file names.

At the time of this column, there was no known free decryption tool to solve the Netwalker malware.

What Cyberattacks Target Healthcare?

Netwalker is not the only phishing scheme to target healthcare organizations.

The FBI has issued three warnings in 2020 about the Kwampirs Remote Access Trojan, which exploits network vulnerabilities. Health organizations have become a frequent target. Why? There’s ample opportunity, especially as health organizations pivot quickly to telehealth options and more people are working from home.

Unit 42 reported on a scam in late March that spoofed an email address from the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign targeted an unnamed Canadian government health agency and a Canadian university doing COVID-29 research. It contained a Rich Text File (RTF) attachment that delivered ransomware.

A separate malware campaign has targeted medical organizations and medical research facilities the world over. The email campaign teased COVID-19 news with attachments titled “COVID-19 Supplier Notice” or “Corporate advisory” and used an email address from an electric skateboard company. The attachments launched AgentTesla, malware that steals information.

The prevalence of attacks led the WHO to report that the agency had seen a fivefold increase in cyberattacks this year compared to in 2019. WHO also reported the online leak of 450 email addresses and passwords belonging to agency employees and retirees. Scammers have used WHO addresses to direct donations to a fraudulent fund.

What Can Be Done to Prevent Healthcare Cyberattacks?

Several cybercrime organizations announced that they would not target healthcare organizations with attacks. However, several security analysts noted that these moves are not driven by an interest in protecting public health but in self-preservation. Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax, told Forbes that continued attacks on healthcare organizations “may even elicit military action up to and including a special forces mission to take out the actors responsible for the cyber-attack.”

The insidious attacks on our most vulnerable and needed institutions reinforce that companies have to be ever-diligent in keeping systems secure. Now is the time to ensure that your cybersecurity solution is current, comprehensive and active.

Tags: Corona VirusCOVID-19 pandemiccyberattacksCyberattacks Target Healthcare Workerscyberthreats during COVID19cyberthreats post COVID19pandemic and economic crisis
Previous Post

Why Auto Repair Companies Should Make the Most of the Web

Next Post

Finding A Professional Web Design Company In Sydney – Check This Guide!

mm

Matthew Boulware

Technological advancements and knowhow of gadgets is ever changing, especially today, when every new dawn brings fresh tech to the table, and leaves the old for beaten. Matthew Boulware is a connoisseur of this field and takes pride in writing stories about all things technical. Be it policies that affect tech giants, or conflict in the sector, Matthew covers the triumphant as well as the outdated to write a section that highlights all aspects. He holds a degree in Technology from a renewed University.

Next Post
Finding A Professional Web Design Company In Sydney – Check This Guide!

Finding A Professional Web Design Company In Sydney – Check This Guide!

No Result
View All Result

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • June 2019

About World News Mania

World News Mania is an online portal for all type of news, current affairs & information, Subscribe us to get regular updates.

Recent Posts

  • Most systematic movers in Toronto for commercial offices
  • Are You Using the Right Products Around the House?
  • Tips for Defending Yourself in a Personal Injury Case
  • Signs that a Company is in Trouble
  • How To Get Help Marketing Your Thai Website

Datewise News

January 2021
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Dec    

Tags

Announce Your Engagement Online (1) Auto Repair (1) Auto Repair Companies (1) build a gaming PC (1) Buying A Gaming PC (1) child care in robina (1) Corona Virus (1) COVID-19 pandemic (1) credit card debt (1) cyberattacks (1) Cyberattacks Target Healthcare Workers (1) cyberthreats during COVID19 (1) cyberthreats post COVID19 (1) daycare Centre (1) daycare services (1) Downloading Product Keys (1) Early Learning Centre (1) how to dispute a debt (1) Microsoft Product Keys (1) Napag (1) Napag Trading (1) online engagement announcement (1) pandemic and economic crisis (1) pay off credit card debt (1) Pet-Friendly Cities in America (1) pre-built gaming PC (1) Product Key (1) Product Keys (1) Product Keys from Microsoft (1) Robina First Early Learning Centre (1) seo agency in singapore (1) seo company in singapore (1) seo firm singapore (1) seo singapore (1) Singapore Tuition Agency (1) Softwareguys (1) Venture Capital (1) Venture Capital Investment (1) Web Design Company (1) Web Design Company In Sydney (1) web design company Sydney (1) Web Design Firm Sydney (1) Web Design Frim In Sydney (1) where to find Venture Capital (1) Windows Product Keys (1)
  • Vision
  • Editorial Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use
  • Contact Us & Team

© 2019 World News Mania - Premium News Portal!

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business World
  • International News
  • Press Release
  • Science & Environment
  • Tech Space
  • Tips & Advice
    • Automotive
    • Education
    • Finance
    • Health
    • Legal
    • Travel

© 2019 World News Mania - Premium News Portal!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In