{"id":24409,"date":"2020-05-05T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24409"},"modified":"2020-05-05T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:03:08","slug":"hackers-target-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24409","title":{"rendered":"HACKERS TARGET HEALTHCARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top cybersecurity agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting health care organizations and essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.K.\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) put out a joint alert warning that advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are using the pandemic to zero in on vulnerable organizations involved in fighting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPT actors are actively targeting organizations involved in both national and international COVID-19 responses,\u201d the agencies wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ylvcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtcbsssf_sjbbmmvrvtbmllsbpjsm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ylvcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtcbsssf_sjbbmmvrvtbmllsbpjsm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1588806045998000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9hxTm1oQHJz_wXWIoTy3oDGyCWw\">in the alert<\/a>. \u201cThese organizations include healthcare bodies, pharmaceutical companies, academia, medical research organizations, and local governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What the hackers want:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The agencies warned that these groups were likely being targeted in order to steal intellectual property and intelligence, such as details on national and international health policies and COVID-19 research.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers are increasingly using \u201cpassword spraying\u201d to target the organizations, which involves an attacker using common passwords on many accounts repeatedly to gain access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizations involved in COVID-19-related research are attractive targets for APT actors looking to obtain information for their domestic research efforts into COVID-19-related medicine,\u201d CISA and the NCSC wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top cybersecurity agencies in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24410,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions\/24410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}