NCC Group offers free cyber threat intelligence to global healthcare providers

Organisations around the world are rallying together to support those leading the response to the Coronavirus pandemic and NCC Group is proud to play its part by helping to keep global healthcare providers cyber safe so they can focus on patient care. 

Institutions signing up will benefit from receiving actual threat intelligence on hacking groups who have been infamous for their targeted ransomware attacks. The information, known as Indicators of Compromise, concerns the main criminal groups and the methods they use. On that basis, hospitals will be able to use this information to detect cyber criminals at an early stage and take actionable steps to improve their resilience. 

The initial report, compiled by NCC Group’s Fox-IT Threat Intelligence team based in the Netherlands, includes: 

·         Executive briefing 

·         Threat actor descriptions 

·         How to apply threat intelligence to systems 

·         Chronology of targeted ransomware in hospitals and health clinics 

·         Technical Indicator of Compromise pack related to targeted ransomware threat actors for deployment to institutions or national capabilities 

·         Regular updates on threat actors over the next few months. 

As well as providing the report and updates, NCC Group, with Fox-IT at its core, has brought together a team of specialist threat intelligence analysts and incident responders to answer both general and urgent questions that may arise from the content of the report.  

NCC Group’s teams are contacting institutions directly with this offer, however eligible institutions* interested in accessing this threat intelligence can get in touch with the company directly via the website: https://www.nccgroup.com/thankyouhospitals   

Krijn de Mik, head of the Research and Intelligence Fusion team at Fox-IT, said: “The world’s healthcare systems are increasingly reliant on technology, and building resilience is crucial to enable individual organisations to focus on delivering care and providing guidance without disruption.   

“In this challenging time, we believe it is more important than ever to share the tools and knowledge that we have developed, to help global healthcare systems continue to carry out their vital work. It’s our way of saying thank you to those who are working hard to keep us safe at this time.”  

Ollie Whitehouse, global CTO at NCC Group, commented: “Our mission as an organisation is to make society safer and more secure, and a significant part of this is to support critical sectors including healthcare and help them to keep running securely where we can. We’re proud to offer this valuable insight to help build resilience, now and in the future.”