7
Feb
2020

Going Once
As one of the most consistently vulnerable industries in the business world, healthcare administrator access credentials are the most commonly auctioned off. The administrative credentials are used for both clinician and patient portals, according to Etay Maor, chief security officer at the threat intelligence firm IntSights. Maor goes on to explain that stealing health data is a particularly tantalizing target for cybercriminals because unlike other targets, it can be reused for different kinds of attacks. Hackers might encrypt the data and use it to extort money in a ransomware attack, or sell patient information for identity thieves; and so on. The concept of extracting and selling usernames and passwords from databases is hardly a new one, but this recent trend of selling admin access to healthcare organizations is both unexpected and troubling. Not only could an enterprising hacker use it to bypass security systems, but admin access enables those with it to change data. By extension, if malicious agents appear in the system, the system may not register it as a threat.Think Ahead
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