<div dir="ltr">Recognizing that AT&T appears to have been an technical issue... UnitedHealth Group on the otherhand is being reported as a cyberattack tied to a nation-state: <br><br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/cyberattack-hits-unitedhealth-group-unit-by-actor-with-suspected-nation-state-ties/ar-BB1iJtnk">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/cyberattack-hits-unitedhealth-group-unit-by-actor-with-suspected-nation-state-ties/ar-BB1iJtnk</a><br><br>
<p><span class="gmail-dropcap-element-slot">U</span>nitedHealth
 Group disclosed Thursday one of its subsidiaries was hit this week by a
 cyberattack from an actor with a suspected nation-state association.</p> <p>After
 detecting the incident, Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth said it isolated 
the impacted information technology systems from other connecting 
systems in order to contain, assess and remediate the problem.</p><div class="gmail-intra-article-module"><span name="BB1iJtnk-intraArticleModule-0"></span></div> <p>UnitedHealth
 did not specify what the impacted systems are used for, but Rhode 
Island-based CVS Health — one of the nation's largest pharmacy operators
 — said some of its business operations were impacted by the network 
interruption. CVS Health said there was no indication that its systems 
had been compromised.</p> <p class="gmail-continue-read-break">"We're
 continuing to fill prescriptions but in certain cases we are not able 
to process insurance claims, which our business continuity plan is 
addressing to ensure patients continue to have access to their 
medications," the company said in a statement to the Star Tribune.<span name="cont-read-break"></span></p> <p>In
 a regulatory filing Thursday, UnitedHealth Group said it learned 
Wednesday of a "nation-state associated cyber security threat actor" 
that had gained access to some information technology systems at Change 
Healthcare, a business unit that's part of the company's OptumInsight 
division.</p>

</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM le berger des photons via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">given the plus minus statistics of the american health care system putting them out of business might save more lives than it takes, except that they'll just kill those people later.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 3:52 PM David Bray, PhD via Nnagain<br>
<<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/cellular-outage-in-us-hits-at-t-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-downdetector-shows/ar-BB1iHBMF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/cellular-outage-in-us-hits-at-t-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-downdetector-shows/ar-BB1iHBMF</a><br>
<br>
I had feared this was the natural outgrowth of the devastating DNS<br>
KEYTRAP attack that was announced yesterday:<br>
<a href="https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/keytrap-dns-bug-threatens-widespread-internet-outages" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/keytrap-dns-bug-threatens-widespread-internet-outages</a><br>
<br>
But so far the bet on nanog is that "oops, cisco deleted the sim database."<br>
<br>
I think they are being snarky about "the" sim database. I´m pretty<br>
sure they are just being snarky...<br>
<br>
> A cellular outage in the United States was reported by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and other network users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.<br>
><br>
> The number of reports of AT&T outages peaked at 31,931 at around 4:30 a.m. ET, data from Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed.<br>
><br>
> More than 800 service outages of U.S. wireless carriers Verizon and T-Mobile were also reported on the platform.<br>
><br>
> Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T did not immediately reply to Reuters' requests for comment.<br>
><br>
> And this -  I was just on a call where it's clear this is increasing: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/cyberattacks-on-hospitals-are-likely-to-increase-putting-lives-at-risk-experts-warn/ar-BB1ihhll" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/cyberattacks-on-hospitals-are-likely-to-increase-putting-lives-at-risk-experts-warn/ar-BB1ihhll</a><br>
><br>
> WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children's hospital, and that the U.S. government is doing too little prevent such breaches.<br>
><br>
> Hospitals in recent years have shifted their use of online technology to support everything from telehealth to medical devices to patient records. Today, they are a favorite target for internet thieves who hold systems' data and networks hostage for hefty ransoms, said John Riggi, the American Hospital Association’s cybersecurity adviser.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> David Bray, PhD Principal, LeadDoAdapt Ventures, Inc.<br>
> Loomis Innovation Council Co-Chair & Distinguished Fellow<br>
> Henry S. Stimson Center, Business Executives for National Security<br>
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