“Orangeworm Cyber Attack Group Targets Health Sector”

Orangeworm is a hacking group discovered by Symantec to be targeting organizations linked to the healthcare industry. According to researchers, the group has been launching a custom backdoor called Trojan.Kwampirs on medical devices and machines used by patients to fill out consent forms. The deployment of this malware is believed to be for the purpose of performing cyber espionage in order to determine how such machines operate. This article continues to discuss Orangeworm in relation to its use of Trojan.Kwampirs, targets, motive, and origin, along with how organizations can avoid these attacks.

Computer Weekly reports “Orangeworm Cyber Attack Group Targets Health Sector”