Cyber Bites

Breach remediation processes adversely impact timeliness in patient care and outcomes, a new study finds. Ransomware attacks and data breaches targeting hospitals may cause a higher mortality rate among heart patients in the months and years after an incident, Vanderbilt University researchers report, as breach remediation time interferes with patient care and outcomes. Source: Dark Reading

Action sports giant Boardriders was hit by a ransomware attack that affected some of its subsidiaries, including QuikSilver and Billabong, and forced the company to shut down computing systems all over the world. Source: Bleeping Computer

Just as people express their political views through art, malware developers express their political ideologies, hopes, and frustrations through the computer infections they create. While investigating a recent malspam campaign, the Cisco Talos Group noticed that the payload was named Trump.exe. Noticing the politically themed name, Talos began researching other malicious programs that contained political references or themes and found hundreds of examples. Source: Bleeping Computer

People are being warned about a realistic new British Gas phishing scam. Customers are receiving an e-mail which claims there has been an issue with their bill and prompts them to check their details. However, if they click the seemingly genuine link on the authentic looking e-mail, customers could see their accounts compromised. Source: Daily Post

Several factors edged the world's most popular payment service into the top spot. PayPal was the most frequently spoofed brand in the third quarter of 2019, unseating Microsoft, phishers' usual favorite, which held the top spot for more than a year, Vade Secure reports. Source: Dark Reading

The companies are the latest on a long and growing list of organizations that have fallen victim to users with legitimate access to enterprise systems and data. Two separate incidents reported this week have once again highlighted how insiders with legitimate access to systems and data can be far more dangerous to enterprise security than external attackers. Source: Dark Reading

Microsoft has decided to roll back its decision to add the Downloads folder to the Windows 10 Disk Cleanup program after receiving negative feedback from users. The Windows 10 Disk Cleanup program allows users to quickly free up hard drive space by removing unneeded files found in a variety of system locations. These locations include temporary files, the Recycle Bin, Thumbnails, old Windows Update files, etc. Source: Bleeping Computer

The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) together with state and territory partners warns businesses and people of Emotet and BlueKeep threats being active in the wild. The ACSC urges vigilance as attackers exploiting the Windows BlueKeep vulnerability have started attacking unpatched systems to infect them with coin miners. Source: Bleeping Computer

The Portland, Maine healthcare provider InterMed is informing about 30,000 patients that some of their PHI has been involved in a data breach. The facility learned on September 6, 2019 that an employee’s email account had been hacked a few days prior, which led to several other accounts also being breached between September 7-10. An investigation was started, and it was determined the attacker could have viewed emails and attachments from the accounts but it...

A cyber adversary in possession of both ransomware and point-of-sale malware was recently found to have obtained “a deep level of access” to the infrastructures of at least two targets, including a U.S.-based aluminum and stainless steel gratings company, researchers have reported. Source: SC Magazine