Why Cyberattacks in the Healthcare Industry are on the Rise

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
– Fred Rogers
During these unprecedented times, like most people, we here at ThreatBlockr are watching in awe as “the helpers”..the nurses, doctors, caretakers, EMTs, and healthcare providers, are risking their own health and making profound sacrifices to fight the COVID-19 outbreak.
ThreatBlockr is also keenly aware of the unconscionable attacks by cyber criminals, as they unleash a global onslaught of phishing and ransomware attacks, targeting healthcare providers and medical facilities. These attacks* seek to exploit the crisis by attacking the very heroes and their organizations on the front lines, and when we are at our most desperate.
ThreatBlockr has almost a decade of experience helping healthcare organizations protect their patient data and critical infrastructure from crippling cyber threats. Over this time, we’ve seen cyber attacks targeting the healthcare industry grow to a billion dollar black market business. According to the 2019 HIMSS Cybersecurity survey, phishing attacks have become a greater threat to the healthcare industry than any other attack vector.
So while disturbing, it is perhaps no surprise that from February to April, ThreatBlockr saw dropped connections targeting our healthcare customers increase from 900 million to over 1 billion, or a 15% increase in blocked known bad IPs and domains.
Here’s how we can help.
The ThreatBlockr Threat Intelligence Firewall platform enables healthcare organizations to curate specific protections against these targeted attacks in several ways:
In network security, we often use a “what if” scenario to explain the value of our solutions. For our healthcare providers and the networks on which they rely, that “what if” scenario is “now.”
We here at ThreatBlockr are dedicated to making threat intelligence actionable to protect our way of life….that includes doing what we can to protect the heroes that are protecting life itself.
*If you’d like to know more information about COVID-19 attacks, read our blog: The Very Real Impact of COVID-19 Cyber Threats.
And finally:
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