Medical Futurist June 20, 2023
While we were battling the COVID-19 virus in 2020, other infections were also happening, albeit in other, digital systems. We are, of course, talking about cyberattacks. These involve digital viruses infecting IT systems and disrupting potentially life-saving processes until after paying a ransom. No honour among thieves, goes the saying; not even during a pandemic. Indeed, as global technology company Acronis noted, there was a rise in ransomware cases at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.
From 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations more than doubled from 43 to 91, exposing the personal health information of nearly 42 million patients – a cohort study of 374 ransomware attacks revealed. Almost half of ransomware attacks...
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