Analysis of SingHealth Attack Offers Recommendations That Could Be Applied Worldwide- A variety of security weaknesses – ranging from misconfigurations to coding vulnerabilities, untrained staff and flawed incident response – contributed to a 2017 cyberattack impacting about 1.5 million patients of SingHealth, Singapore’s largest healthcare group. That’s the conclusion of a new report issued by a committee designated to examine the breach.
The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations' IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.