Attackers are taking no breaks and actually pull harder before holidays, as shown by a San Antonio mental health services provider and a New Mexico hospital impacted by malware attacks according to reports and disclosures published before Christmas.
San Antonio's The Center for Health Care Services (CHSC) shut down computing systems for all its clinics in response to a larger-scale cyber-attack that took place last week.
Roosevelt General Hospital (RGH), the other healthcare organization affected, disclosed that it discovered malware on one of its digital imaging servers containing patient info, on November 14.
Mental health provider takes down systems
The CHSC provides various mental health services to adults and children with "mental health conditions, substance use challenges and intellectual or developmental disabilities" from San Antonio, Texas.
As CEO Jelynne LeBlanc Burley told the San Antonio Express News, the incident that led to CHSC having to shut down computing systems in all its clinics is currently investigated by both the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service seeing that it's part of a series of attacks targeting multiple organizations.
The infection was isolated to a single system by CHSC's IT team after law enforcement agents alerted them of the attack last week.
"Now we’re in the process of bringing back our system," Burley said at the time. "We started at our larger clinics, and we’re bringing it up slowly and carefully to ensure that our security is still intact."
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New Mexico's RGH issued a security incident notice on Decembe ..
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