Security is a pain for American Dental Association: Ransomware infection feared

The Black Basta crime gang has claimed it infected the American Dental Association with ransomware. While the professional association confirmed to The Register it was the victim of a "cybersecurity incident" that occurred on or around April 21, it did not disclose the nature of the attack. As of Friday last week, the …

[Anonymous Coward]

All our incoming email is scanned for infections with an anti-virus scanning that is update every few hours, this stops most of the attacks but every couple of days we get a few phishing emails that are undetected when they arrive with a new attachment e.g new_purchase_order.iso ... we quarantine all potential infections attachments so (touch wood) we're currently OK. But we don't assume that we will not get infected so everything is backed up by an off-line system.

While some on-line access systems can be infected, the bulk of malware infections these days are a result of people opening emails with new infected attachments that the anti-virus vendors haven't discovered for the last hour or so.

[Bitsminer]

ADA suffers network attack....

Perhaps they should put some teeth into their cyber defences.

[Pirate Dave]

ADA attack

4 out of 5 dentists... never installed antivirus.

What? Somebody had to say it...

[chivo243]

Re: ADA attack

4 out of 5 dentists... never installed antivirus.

What? Somebody had to say it...

for their patients data...

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: ADA attack

There's no question that ransomware has stained and pitted the once-gleaming surfaces of our network defenses, and you mustn't just brush it off or pay lip service to it. Incisive action is necessary. The troubling calculus is whether to pay the ransom. Pick your poison and scrape up the necessary resources to plane down the attack surface, fill in missing capabilities, and seal porous boundaries. White-box testing can help identify vulnerabilities before they bite. Rinse, spit, and repeat.

And, um ... something about dentures? I dunno.