2024 Cyber attacks on healthcare soar: What lies ahead In 2024 Cyber attacks on healthcare soar: What lies ahead In 2024 January 14, 2024 06:00 AM With more healthcare services going online, providers are under mounting pressure to strengthen their security posture. Neal Quinn, head of ...
"Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations and hospitals, specifically, are disturbing, because patient care is at risk when threat actors encrypt systems and demand a ransom payment be made," Weber told TechTarget Editorial. "Unfortunately, dozens of hospitals have been attacked this year. And I s...
“The number of cyberattacks on the global healthcare sector are simply getting out of control. And so, the questions at large are why hospitals? Why now?” Check Point’s manager of Data Intelligence, Omer Dembinsky, said about the findings. “The short answer is that targeting hospitals ...
records stolen over the course of a little over a year. The pandemic is over (for now), but the mercury in the cyber thermometer is still rising as recent attacks against such health sector players asProspect Medical HoldingsandHCA Healthcareadd to the stack of violated data in 2023. ...
Cybercriminals aren't sparing medical professionals, hospitals and healthcare orgs on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to cyberattacks, ransomware attacks and malware.
healthcare organizations have already dealt with ransomware attacks. These attacks caused all sorts of trouble for these organizations, ranging from an increase in patient mortality due to poor test outcomes to delays in procedures and longer lengths of stays in hospitals and medical care institutions...
Even with well-rehearsed incident response plans and downtime procedures, healthcare cyberattacks that target critical systems are bound to cause operational troubles. OneBlood works to restore critical systems following ransomware attack On August 6, blood donation nonprofit OneBloodinformedt...
cyberattacks than the global average. In 2023, some100 millionpeople were affected by breach of healthcare information. These attacks don’t only result in stolen patient records. The longer an attack persists, the more disruption it causes—having direct impacts on patient care and human lives....
Cybercriminals may also have more leverage to obtain a ransom from hospitals or other health care entities because disruptions caused by cyberattacks could put people’s lives on the line and disrupt important medical services, according to the Berkeley Varitronics Systems CEO. ...
An increase in cyber attacks on the healthcare sector is jeopardising patient safety, and prompting some governments to publish new cyber security standards. Publicly disclosed global cyber security breaches between January and September last year showed that the healthcare sector suffered more attacks (...