Brett Callow, an analyst for the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft,counted46 cyberattacks on hospitals last year, compared with 25 in 2022. The paydays for criminals have gotten bigger too, with the average payout jumping from $5,000 in 2018 to $1.5 million last year. The Lurie Children's Hosp...
Hospitals are especially sensitive to these sorts of attacks as any disruption in operations or even disclosure of patient personal information can have far-reaching consequences. The objective of this study was to map the available literature on cyberattacks on hospitals and to identify the different...
“Bomb our hospitals in Gaza, we shut down yours too, eye for eye,” Ahmed Omer allegedly wrote on Telegram in the midst of the attack. As a result of those hospital attacks, prosecutors are bringing charges against Ahmed Ohmer that carry a potential life sentence, which prosecutors describe...
Coming to the second news, two of the France-based hospitals have admitted that they were targeted by extortion gangs who stole data and then threatened to release that data on the dark web if their demand for ransom was not attended. Vitry-Le-Francois and Saint Dizier are the two hospital...
The health system also announced that it would be diverting ambulances from HealthAlliance Hospital to other facilities and “making decisions on whether to discharge current HealthAlliance Hospital patients to their homes or facilitate transfers to other hospitals within the WMCHealth Network.” ...
Hillel Yaffe staffers working during the attack (Photo: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center) The attack reportedly began at around 4am, when it was discovered that the hospital systems had been blocked and a ransom demand found. Hillel Yaffe was most probably not well protected against cyber attacks...
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that the frequency of sophisticated cyber attacks against hospitals, electricity and water supplies, and other critical civilian infrastructure is increasing. Peter Maurer said the ICRC is increasingly concerned about the destruc...
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has accused China of leading a spate of cyberattacks against hospitals in Europe during the coronavirus outbreak, stressing that the EU will not "tolerate" such malicious activity.
Hospitals don’t care about cybersecurity. They don’t appoint security experts to assure their networks are safe and no one has access to user files. Well, this blew out of proportion because recently there are several attacks on hospitals with the thief looking for valuable information of pat...
This raised further concerns about the vulnerability of India’s health system to attacks at a time when the government is pushing hospitals to digitize their records. Article content More than 173,000 hospitals have registered with a federal program to digitize health records since its launch in ...