Healthcare IT Today November 22, 2024
The following is a guest article by Cody Hall, Product Manager at Synology
Cybercriminals are attacking our healthcare systems at an alarming rate. According to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations doubled between 2022 and 2023, making the healthcare sector one of the fastest-growing targets for cybercriminals. Even more alarming is that nearly 1 in 4 of these attacks were carried out using a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) tool called LockBit.
RaaS attacks are becoming increasingly more common in the United States across all sectors. A RaaS cybercrime group operates like a business. The group, in this case LockBit, maintains the ransomware variant keeping it up to date and ensuring it...