Health Care Warning: Beware of Pandemic Phishing Attempts
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Hospitals and other health care organizations need to tighten up their email security protocols and boost their anti-phishing training to fend off growing cyberattacks that use requests for COVID-19 data to try to penetrate IT systems. CEOs at several Massachusetts hospitals recently received requests for COVID-19 statistics in emails that appeared to come from US Department of Health and Human Services. However, the emails included external links that…