Security News > 2021 > April > Nonprofit provides help to hospitals battling ransomware
A Comparitech report found that there were 92 separate ransomware attacks in 2020 that had an effect on more than 600 US clinics, hospitals and organizations.
"85% of ransomware attacks could be prevented in your organization if you were using MDBR because 85% of ransomware attacks are done using known ransomware domains," Mattison said.
"As long as organizations get hit with ransomware and they pay the ransoms, there will continue to be an increase in the number of ransomware attacks. If organizations can prevent the attacks, or if they don't prevent the attack but can recover their systems and not pay the ransoms, then we will see ransomware reduce and go away."
"If you are working at an organization and get an email that has a link in it that's going to download ransomware or contact some ransomware command-and-control domain, if you click that link and there's not a service like this in place, then that that web request is going to go out to that command and control domain and return the ransomware for installation on your PC and network," he said.
"The main vector by which ransomware and other malware gets into an organization is through email. There are some estimates that say as high as 85% of malware infections including ransomware start with a user clicking on a link in an email. It is a known fact that the number of phishing and malware campaigns have greatly increased toward hospitals during COVID-19," Mattison said.
"Services like MDBR would be a good complementary solution to reduce the attack surface for hospitals against ransomware and other attacks. However, organizations have to operate under the assumption that crafty hackers will find a way in," Morgan said.