HealthTech September 24, 2025
Rebecca Torchia

Hackers are using artificial intelligence to work faster and more efficiently. Ongoing pen testing helps health systems remediate vulnerabilities proactively.

Artificial intelligence can help clinicians and administrative staff work more efficiently. It can even assist in healthcare customer service. What’s more, AI tools are now considered necessary for a strong security posture. Unfortunately, AI is just as useful for cybercriminals.

At this year’s Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, experts shared some of the specific ways threat actors are using AI to become faster and more sophisticated, making them more dangerous to healthcare organizations.

“Their favorite initial access vectors remain simply exploiting internet-facing, publicly known, unpatched vulnerabilities,” said Bailey Bickley, chief of defense industrial base defense at the National...

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