US Health Dept warns hospitals of hackers targeting IT help desks
Hackers are increasingly employing social engineering techniques to target IT help desks in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) industry, according to a warning from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released a sector alert stating that attackers have been able to enroll their own multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices in order to access the systems of the targeted institutions.
The threat actors in these operations call businesses posing as financial department officials using a local area code and divulge stolen ID verification information, such as social security numbers and corporate IDs.
By saying that their smartphone is broken and using this sensitive information, they persuade...