Security News > 2021 > July > Why Healthcare Keeps Falling Prey to Ransomware and Other Cyberattacks

The transition to EHRs has made ransomware and data-theft attacks far more costly and damaging for healthcare institutions.

Researchers have found that Ryuk ransomware is increasingly targeting RDPs, particularly in the healthcare sector.

A 2019 study found that 49 percent of segmentation deployments in healthcare used fewer than 10 VLANs in these networks to support all medical devices.

Nearly half of healthcare companies in this group only used one VLAN. In a subsequent study in 2020, 60 percent of healthcare organizations were found to be bundling their IT devices with medical devices within the same VLANs.

Third-Party Security Risk in Healthcare IT. Hospitals have an incredibly diverse third-party ecosystem which poses numerous security challenges.

In March of 2020, as the world was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteer groups like CTI League and COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition were formed by infosec professionals to provide free cyber-threat intelligence to healthcare and hospital security teams.

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