Vice Society, a ransomware operation that launched in June 2021, has claimed its latest victim. The attack on California-based United Health Center (UHC) disrupted all UHC locations and resulted in sensitive patient information being stolen. The information included patient benefits, financial documents, patient lab results, and audits. 20% of Vice Society’s victims are in the healthcare industry. BleepingComputer reached out to Vice Society to ask why they target hospitals and healthcare centers. This was their response: “Why not? They always keep our private data open. You, me and anyone else go to hospitals, give them our passports, share our health problems etc. and they don’t even try to protect our data. They have billions of government money. Do they steal that money? USA president gave big amount to protect government networks and where is their protection? Where is our protection? If IT department don’t want to do their job we will do ours and we don’t care if it hospital or university.” The healthcare industry continues to be a popular target amongst ransomware threat actors, although several groups publicly state they prohibit such attacks.
5 Critical Criteria for evaluating Managed Detection & Response (MDR)
When evaluating a Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service there are 5 critical components that