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Report: Healthcare Under Attack – Cybercriminals Target Medical Institutions
Published: July 22, 2016 | By: ginasilvertree | Views: 1952
InfoArmor has identified a group of bad actors performing targeted cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and their IT infrastructure, including connected medical devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems (MRI), X-ray machines and mobile computing healthcare workstations.
This group of bad actors has performed at least four successful attacks against US-based organizations of varying size, compromising a significant number of medical records. The threat actors claim to have stolen millions of medical records and gained unauthorized access for ransomware distribution.
this is serious
It is.
This issue needs to be solved very soon.
Agreed