HealthsystemCIO.com September 11, 2025
Nation-state services and criminal gangs are blending tactics, tooling, and motives in ways that complicate attribution and raise risk for hospital operations, according a new report from H-ISAC and CI-ISAC Australia.
The most consequential finding for provider organizations is that governments are increasingly empowering local cybercriminals—and, at times, private contractors—to act as disposable extensions of state capability. The report stated that this fusion expands adversaries’ resources, provides plausible deniability, and accelerates attacks that can threaten clinical systems, revenue cycles, and third-party connections. In practical terms, health systems face nation-grade tradecraft married to the speed and opportunism of criminal crews.
“Forward-facing intelligence consumption is essential to the success of organizations trying to navigate the opaque threat landscape,” the report stated.
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