Breach

Cloudflare has dubbed the botnet behind the record-breaking 26 million request per second HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack it had thwarted last month as "Mantis," reflecting its Meris botnet origins, reports The Register.

BJC Healthcare has agreed to settle with the 287,873 patients involved in a 2020 healthcare data breach, which would require the provider to implement MFA for email access.

Unit 42 researchers say they witnessed more than 500,000 unique malware samples over a fourth-month period from December 2021 to March 2022.

After failing to disclose a breach within the 60-day HIPAA requirement and other possible violations, OSU-Center for Health Sciences pays penalty for 2018 breach affecting nearly 280,000 patients.

After Tenet Health-affiliate Baptist Health System reported a hack that led to data theft for 1.2 million patients, a victim sued the health system claiming the stolen data was not encrypted.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup contains multiple vendor incidents and is led by the Professional Finance Company ransomware attack that led to data access for 1.9 million patients.

Vulnerable QNAP network-attached storage devices are being exploited by the Raspberry Robin Windows worm to further spread to other systems, according to SecurityWeek.