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...
Amid recent reports of hackers targeting and blackmailing healthcare systems and even patients, the FBI and other agencies have issued a warning of "imminent" cyberattacks on more US hospitals.
HOSPITALSMEDICAL careCYBERTERRORISMHealthcare organizations are an attractive target for cyber-attacks, because the digitization of health processes is emerging as a necessity. Healthcare is a rich source of valuable data and its defences are weak. The particular weakness of this d...
Cyber attacks on French hospitals and a Helsinki hotel compromise sensitive data, underscoring the risks faced by healthcare and hospitality sectors.
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...
Threatened Cyberattacks on Hospitals The health care crisis has been crippling to society as a whole throughout the world. It’s killed 225,000 people in the U.S. alone and is currently working its way through its third surge. Not only has it killed people, but it’s also killed the ...
Many hospitals remain underprepared to fend off cybercriminals’ barrage of increasingly sophisticated attacks, but there are a couple concrete steps they can take to build a stronger defense structure, according to Oren Koren, co-founder and chief product officer of cybersecurity startupVeriti. ...
A major cyber attack on NHS hospitals has caused a number of procedures to be cancelled or changed in London. Blood transfusions are particularly affected by the "critical incident", according to NHS trusts.
The attacks aren’t slowing, and they’re only getting more sophisticated, and therefore more effective. Hospitals must update their cyber defense mechanisms to counter the elevated threat level and secure their systems. Today, better cybersecurity isn’t optional; it’s more essential than ever....
Cyber attacks on hospitals in Germany and the US have also disabled their systems — forcing them to reschedule some procedures and temporarily divert patients to other facilities until the systems were brought back online. And, in anothercase, in Finland, the confidential records of thousands of ...