Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

pharmaceutical firm Pfizer. Reported Attempt at Stealing COVID-19 Data Comes in Wake of Global Warnings South Korean intelligence officials allege that North Korean hackers attempted to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment data by hacking the U.S.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Noisy 'Peach Sandstorm' Password Spraying Campaign Is Followed by Stealth Iranian state threat actor "Peach Sandstorm" is growing in sophistication, warns Microsoft in an alert about a campaign of password hacking targeting the satellite, defense and pharmaceutical sectors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Biopharmaceutical company Supernus Pharmaceuticals discloses a ransomware attack, the Hive ransomware claims to have stolen company data. Biopharmaceutical company Supernus Pharmaceuticals confirmed it was the victim of a data breach after a ransomware attack that hit the firm last in Mid-November. “Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 11, 2022

New Attack Surface Management Tool Should Help Reach New Clients New CEO Bryan Ware plans to leverage LookingGlass' nascent attack surface management capabilities to capture clients in verticals such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and utilities.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 20, 2022

Alert Comes as Other Ransomware Assaults, Data Leaks Plague Medical Providers Federal authorities are alerting healthcare sector entities of threats posed by Russian state-sponsored cyber groups, including some linked to attacks on pharmaceutical and related firms. Meanwhile, other ransomware gangs continue their assaults on a variety of U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

This week, the Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai has taken its systems offline in response to a ransomware attack. Eisai is a Japanese pharmaceutical company with about 10,000 employees and more than $5 billion in revenue.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With the escalation of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain partners need to strengthen their security controls and defenses, say Vishwas Gadgil of pharmaceutical firm Merck and Ed Gaudet of the consultancy Censinet. They describe updated guidance on the subject.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 30, 2022

Takeda's Head of Security Authentication Discusses the Process and Challenges Markus Kalka, head of security authentication services at Takeda, talks about the challenges of changing identity service providers and shares the experience of consolidating three services into one at his company, a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2023

Learn how this technology revolutionized their workflow and what it mean for the future of the pharmaceutical industry. How Merck Used Bots to Assist With Regulatory Filings in 23 Geographies Discover how Merck, a traditional global pharma giant, achieved efficiency by embracing RPA and bots for regulatory documentation.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2023

ISMG Summit Speaker Phil Englert of H-ISAC on Emerging Security Healthcare Issues Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming (..)

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 8, 2022

Peter Gankin, head of identity and access management at Takeda, a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company, shares his views. Peter Gankin of Takeda Shares His Company's Journey What are some challenges of shifting on-premises PAM to the cloud, and how should one go about it?

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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 4, 2022

Government agencies around the world, including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), use current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) as the primary way to ensure pharmaceutical quality.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

Compliance Expert Thomas Fox on the Role Data Analytics Can Play Incidents of fraud at pharmaceutical giant Novartis that resulted in over $1 billion in fines worldwide might have been avoided if the company's compliance team used data analytics to detect patterns, says Thomas Fox, a compliance evangelist and author.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 28, 2020

As cyberthreats to medical research on COVID-19 - and other intellectual property - grow, organzations must take critical steps to prevent the theft of their "innovation capital," says Russell Koste, chief security officer of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 19, 2024

operations of a Swiss pharmaceutical maker has shut down nearly 200 blood plasma donation centers while the company responds to "network issues" that started earlier this week and have reportedly been caused by a suspected Blacksuit ransomware gang attack. Swiss-Based Octapharma Plasma Says Co. is Dealing with 'Network Issues' The U.S.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 29, 2020

A 15-year-old identity framework originally designed for narrow use by pharmaceutical companies is being revamped and updated for broader use in healthcare, says Kyle Neuman, managing director of SAFE Identity, an industry consortium and certification body that's coordinating the project.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Prasanna Bharatan, internal auditor at the pharmaceutical company Wockhardt, outlines the important steps to take. Wockhardt's Prasanna Bharatan on Why Audits Often Are Not Meaningful How can improve internal audits be improved and made more meaningful?

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For months, the Iran-backed APT has carried out waves of password spray attacks attempting to authenticate to thousands of environments across multiple targets worldwide.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The post Versatile Retention™ and Consulting Case Study: More Than a Vendor – Why Zasio is a Trusted Partner for this Global Pharmaceutical Company appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the case study post here.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Similar litigation initiated by pharmaceutical giant Merck against its insurers continues.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2020

Overall, Fresenius employs nearly 300,000 people across more than 100 countries, and is ranked 258th on the Forbes Global 2000.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It's no secret: As pharmaceutical companies develop new health treatments, adversaries seek to steal or sabotage their intellectual property. This dynamic adds extra urgency to authentication. Tom Scontras of Yubico talks about how the pharma sector approaches authentication.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Alleged Conspiracy Involved Drug Sales Rep Accessing Patient Records A former doctor who practiced internal medicine in several states has pleaded guilty in a New Jersey federal court to criminal HIPAA violations in a case that also involved a pharmaceutical salesman and a larger alleged $2.5 million healthcare fraud conspiracy.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Group Lists EHR Provider, Pharmaceutical Services Firm on Leak Site An electronic health records vendor and a pharmacy management services firm are purportedly among the latest healthcare sector victims of ransomware-as-a-service group BlackCat, also known as Alphv.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

million by a European pharmaceutical company, a European State reported. “A European Member State reported to Europol that one of their pharmaceutical companies had been defrauded of €6.64 The man has stolen €6.64 The company paid for the products transferring the funds to Singapore, but they never received them.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Fitis’s real-life identity was exposed in 2010 after two of the biggest sponsors of pharmaceutical spam went to war with each other, and large volumes of internal documents, emails and chat records seized from both spam empires were leaked to this author. At least my laptop is sure of it.” Image: Archive.org.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry shows that while the overall cost has improved, there are clear areas of risk that need to be addressed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The systems at the pharmaceutical company were targeted with the BookCode malware, while in the attack against a Ministry of Health the APT group used the wAgent malware. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The cyber espionage activity attacks are aimed at organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors. Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor who has recently pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors around the globe.” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 4, 2018

The case was tied to providing a pharmaceutical salesperson access to patients' medical records. Case Involved Unauthorized Access to Patient Records A former Massachusetts gynecologist has been convicted in a rare case involving a criminal HIPAA violation.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

After the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile phishing attacks targeting pharmaceutical companies have shifted their focus from credential theft to malware delivery.

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IT Governance

MAY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, two major pharmaceutical giants issued warnings about phishing emails targeting job hunters. The post Pharmaceutical companies exploited by phishing scam targeting job seekers appeared first on IT Governance Blog. Organisations can tackle that threat with our Phishing and Ransomware – Human patch e-learning course.

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Collibra

MAY 5, 2022

Pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices firms, among others, must comply with a plethora of regulations. EMA expects pharmaceuticals to submit product data in IDMP format with a mandatory effective date of Q1 2023. The regulatory landscape in life sciences is both complex and in flux.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers attribute attacks targeting a pharmaceutical company and a government ministry related to COVID-19 response.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

“Compromise of the pharmaceutical supply chain provides malicious actors opportunities for theft of US intellectual property, while public disclosure can cause cascading effects including loss of public trust in both chemical and healthcare institutions.” ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Below the operation in numbers reported by the Europol: 121 arrests; €13 million in potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals seized; 326 00 packages inspected; 48 000 packages seized; 4.4 Law enforcement officers inspected 326,000 packages and seized 48,000, 4.4 million illegal drug packets and medications. .

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This is especially critical as pharmaceutical companies continue to bring life-saving therapies to patients, including many who are racing to test the safety and effectiveness … The post What’s new in OpenText Life Sciences Smart View 20.4 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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