Why cyber attacks are increasingly targeting hospitals

Cyber experts call for supercharging volunteer network to protect community organizations

The United States should move toward a new model where “target rich, resource-poor” community organizations like hospitals, schools, utilities and municipal governments share their cybersecurity responsibilities with “other, more capable actors” in the government and private sectors. That is the primary conclusion of a new report released Tuesday by the Cyber Resilience Corps, a volunteer organization led by the University of California Berkeley…

Why cyber attacks are increasingly targeting hospitals

The incidents that caused outages at two Lewiston-based hospital systems come at a time when cyber attacks on health care organizations are skyrocketing.

CYFIRMA flags intensifying ransomware risk to healthcare sector led by US for-profit firms | #ransomware | #cybercrime - National Cyber Security Consulting

CYFIRMA has released its latest Industry Report, spotlighting cybersecurity threats facing the global healthcare sector. In the past 90 days, the firm identified 130 confirmed ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare sector, accounting for 8.1 percent of the 1,605 total victims across industries, placing healthcare as the sixth most-targeted among 14 tracked sectors. Pharma and biotech, […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post …

Bipartisan bill aims to create CISA-HHS liaison for hospital cyberattacks

House Republican Brian Fitzpatrick and others are pushing for legislation to allow CISA and the Department of Health and Human Services to do more in response to cyberthreats against healthcare providers.