{"id":172041,"date":"2023-09-14T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/recent-rhysida-attacks-show-focus-on-healthcare-by-ransomware-actors"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:24:48","slug":"recent-rhysida-attacks-show-focus-on-healthcare-by-ransomware-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/recent-rhysida-attacks-show-focus-on-healthcare-by-ransomware-actors","title":{"rendered":"Recent Rhysida Attacks Show Focus on Healthcare by Ransomware Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recent-rhysida-attacks-show-focus-on-healthcare-by-ransomware-actors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threat group behind the fast-growing Rhysida ransomware-as-a-service operation has claimed credit for an Aug. 19 attack that crippled systems at Singing River Health System, one of Mississippi\u2019s largest healthcare entities.<\/p>\n<p>The attack follows one against California\u2019s Prospect Medical Holdings in August that affected 16 hospitals and more than 160 clinics around the country. The wide scope of that incident prompted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/rhysida-ransomware-sector-alert-tlpclear.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">alert from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center<\/a> to other organizations in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Singing River impacted three hospitals and some 10 clinics belonging to the system and is likely to reinforce Rhysida\u2019s credentials as a growing threat to healthcare organizations in the US. It\u2019s also a reminder of the surging interest in the sector from ransomware actors who, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, had piously vowed to stay away from attacking hospitals and other healthcare entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat group behind the fast-growing Rhysida ransomware-as-a-service operation has claimed credit for an Aug. 19 attack that crippled systems at Singing River Health System, one of Mississippi\u2019s largest healthcare entities. The attack follows one against California\u2019s Prospect Medical Holdings in August that affected 16 hospitals and more than 160 clinics around the country. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}