A legislative package that would overhaul cybersecurity practices at the Department of Health and Human Services sailed through committee. 

A department official speaking at CyberTalks said HHS is trying to help the sector on finding where those risks are.

The bill, first introduced late last year, deals with regulations, training, grants and more.

Karen Vardanyan and his co-conspirators allegedly deployed ransomware on hundreds of machines in 2019 and 2020, extorting more than $15 million from victims at the time.

Witnesses at a Senate hearing Wednesday connected One Big Beautiful Bill provisions to potential cyber issues in the health care sector, much to GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy’s…

The agency has embraced performance goals, provided resources to small systems and improved coordination, its deputy secretary writes.

The bipartisan legislation from four senators is aimed at strengthening providers’ cyber defenses and protecting Americans’ health data.

Evgenii Ptitsyn is said to have helped operate a ransomware-as-a-service organization that extorted millions from more than 1K victims, including schools and hospitals.

The company notified the Health and Human Services Department about the figure this week, the first it has specified.

The Qilin ransomware operation first emerged in July 2022 after rebranding a previous variant known as Agenda and rewriting the malware in Rust.