New Attack Group Orangeworm Targets Healthcare Sector in US, Asia, and Europe: Symantec (symantec.com)

Security researchers at Symantec say a group of hackers has been targeting firms related to health care in order to steal intellectual property. The security firm observed a hacking team, called Orangeworm, compromise the systems of pharmaceutical firms, medical-device manufacturers, health-care providers, and even IT companies working with medical organizations in the US, Europe, and Asia markets. Victims don't appear to have been chosen at random but "carefully and deliberately." You can read the full report here.

Comments

Crap

[olsmeister]

They want to steal the secret plans to our wonderful health care system.

Re:Crap

[DigiShaman]

Genius!!! It's like in the movie Independence Day where a ship is turned into a Trojan horse and a virus is uploaded to the mother ship. Only, we've infected ourselves with the Obamacare virus, and the world will download it from us.

Secure Medical Device Deployment

[Anonymous Coward]

This has been largely reported to impact x-ray and MRI machines. Hospitals can help to mitigate this by deploying medical devices securely such as by following the guidance contained in the OWASP Secure Medical Device Deployment Standard - https://www.owasp.org/images/c/c3/SecureMedicalDeviceDeployment.pdf

Where is the mandatory blame on Russia, N.Korea...

[ffkom]

or Iran? News on new hacking activities feel so incomplete and inconvenient if they do not come with the usual early-on accusations of some axis-of-evil country being the source of them...

Re:More deep state USA crime

[HiThere]

Why should I believe even your first claim?
If you're going to make claims that seem strange, you really ought to offer at least some evidence.

To start with, if I were to accept that you were American, why should I believe your contention that it's being taken politically? I will agree that you didn't actually assert that it *was* politically motivated, but why should I presume that people are taking it that way? Most of the comments seem to assume economic motives of one sort or another.