UK: Healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records belonging to the Nottingham attack victims

The families of the Nottingham attack victims have said claims healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records belonging to their loved ones are “sickening” and “inexcusable”. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death Read More …

Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order

A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG. Law firm Pinsent Masons, which served the February 28 court Read More …

UK: 60% of NHS staff want more cyber security training

Research from BT found that 94% of NHS staff understand their role in protecting the organisation from cyber attacks, yet only 36% believe current measures are sufficient. The independent online survey of 76 NHS staff at 59 NHS organisations and Read More …

UK: Cyber-attack sparks security fears over NHS provider’s data

The private healthcare group that will soon take charge of Swindon community care services has been hit by a cyber-attack. HCRG Care Group recently won the contract to provide care-at-home services in the Swindon area, which was previously managed by Read More …

Medixant Releases Security Update for RadiAnt DICOM Viewer

Medixant has released a security update to address an improper certificate validation vulnerability in RadiAnt DICOM Viewer. CVE-2025-1001 has a CvSSv4 score of 5.7 and could allow an attacker with privileged network access to impersonate RadiAnt’s update server. An attacker Read More …

Over a million clinical records exposed in data breach

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the DM Clinical Research database containing 1,674,218 records, totaling 2TB, including names, medical information, phone numbers, email addresses, medications, and health conditions – along with other data. Although the name of the dataset indicates the Read More …

50,000 electronic attacks countered daily by UAE Cybersecurity Council

Dr. Mohammed Hamad Al Kuwaiti, Chairman of the UAE Cybersecurity Council, stated that the UAE possesses an advanced cybersecurity system capable of predicting and countering most electronic attacks before they occur. He noted that the average daily cyberattacks on key Read More …

Upper Michigan: Cyber attack hits Sault Tribe offices

A ransomware attack that shut down gaming at all five Kewadin Casino locations also impacted other offices at an eastern Upper Peninsula tribe. The tribe made the announcement Monday and said it could be a week or more before regular Read More …

Potential Backdoor Embedded in Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor Firmware

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a medical product advisory for the Contec Health CMS8000 Patient Monitor to address one critical and two high severity vulnerabilities. The Contec CMS8000 is a patient monitor used to display Read More …

UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months

Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health tech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach. Read More …