Security News > 2021 > January > Cyberattacks on Healthcare Spike 45% Since November

According to new findings from Check Point Software, healthcare organizations have seen a 45-percent increase in cyberattacks since November, which is more than double other industry sectors, with an average 22-percent increase.

Researchers said these attacks include botnets, remote code execution and DDoS, but it's ransomware that's really become the weapon-of-choice against healthcare organizations.

"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.

Check Point said that in October the weekly number of attacks against healthcare organizations averaged 430, and by November, it had reached 626.

The good news is that there are things that healthcare systems and organizations can do to get ahead of the next ransomware attack.

Download our exclusive FREE Threatpost Insider eBook Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in a Covid-Era World , sponsored by ZeroNorth, to learn more about what these security risks mean for hospitals at the day-to-day level and how healthcare security teams can implement best practices to protect providers and patients.

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