Health IT Security January 26, 2024
Healthcare used to be an off-limits sector for ransomware groups, but emerging ransomware gangs were not afraid to target the sector in 2023, GuidePoint Security observed.
The healthcare sector was hit hard by data breaches in 2023, with more than 540 organizations reporting breaches to HHS last year. Ransomware remains a top threat to healthcare, as exemplified by the number of high-profile attacks carried out by prolific threat actor groups and lesser-known gangs alike.
In its annual ransomware report, the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT) used publicly available data to explore these trends and how they vary across the threat landscape, uncovering troubling changes in the threat landscape. GRIT observed 63 distinct ransomware groups compromising thousands of victims throughout...
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