NYC Health + Hospitals (NYCHHC), the healthcare system of New York City and the largest municipal healthcare network in the United States, has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the loss of highly sensitive data on 1.8 million people. Among the stolen data are fingerprints and palm prints, which can never be changed, making this breach even more disruptive. This is the latest in a growing number of major data breaches added to the healthcare data breach tracker maintained by
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Our friends at SentinelLabs have published a great review on the current status of the malicious cyber capabilities of Iran. Recent US and Israeli strikes against Iranian targets, followed by Iranian attacks on multiple regional locations, present a highly dynamic geopolitical situation with credible cyber threat implications. Iran has historically incorporated cyber operations into periods of regional escalation. Given the rapid escalation of geopolitical tensions, we assess that Iranian sta