Drex covers four major healthcare cybersecurity developments: Kettering Health's Epic systems recovery following their May 20th cyber attack, with core components now operational while inbound calling systems remain down. Covenant Health faces a new cybersecurity incident affecting three hospitals in Maine and New Hampshire. Seattle's Fred Hutch Cancer Center agreed to a $52 million class action settlement after criminals from their 2023 breach directly threatened patients with data exposure. Plus, a mysterious whistleblower called "Gang Exposed" has leaked thousands of chat logs and documents exposing key figures in the Conti and TrickBot ransomware operations, potentially providing crucial evidence against Russian cybercriminals.
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As of yesterday, core components of Epic were back up and running. The health system's still working on inbound calling. As a reminder, that cyber attack first started back on May 20th. I. Covenant Health is also dealing with a cybersecurity event impacting three of their hospitals in Maine and New Hampshire.
ss action lawsuit linked to a:Cyber thugs contacted patients directly, individually and threatened to expose data that they had if the patient didn't pay the criminals directly, I. Finally today, a little good news. A mysterious whistleblower called gang exposed has outed key figures in the Conti and trick bot ransomware groups. The whistleblower posted thousands of chat logs, personal video, ransomware, negotiation documents, a bunch of other stuff.
Through a Telegram channel, so there's now tons of evidence against two specific Russians. The whistleblower calls himself an independent anonymous investigator. Some believe he's a disgruntled former ransomware criminal, looking to burn his former bosses, whatever the backstory been interesting to watch.
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