The U.S. Treasury Department has introduced sanctions on cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io after helping support North Korea's "malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency," with the sanctions being the first among virtual currency mixers, The Verge reports.

April 2022 saw a record number of vulnerabilities, of which HC3 has assessed those with the potential to disrupt healthcare services to support patch prioritization in the sector.

The Department of Transportation is looking to fine Colonial Pipeline nearly $1 million for a series of safety violations in the wake of the May 2021 DarkSide ransomware attack.

A newly proposed bill targeting FDA user-fee program includes a number of medical device security requirements for manufacturers, including monitoring and identifying post-market cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Despite fewer reported ransomware-related outages so far this year, HC3 data shows global healthcare targeting and the sale of compromised healthcare networks remains high.

CHIME and other healthcare groups are again renewing calls to remove the funding ban from the appropriations bill that bars HHS from establishing a much-needed national patient identifier.

In addition to expanding the size of its cybersecurity unit, the SEC expects to broaden the areas of oversight it will cover, including crypto assets and exchanges, asset lending, decentralized finance platforms and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and stablecoins.