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Health-ISAC Heartbeat flags surge in ransomware, VPN exploits across healthcare systems

A continuous trend of cybersecurity incidents and data breaches impacting health sector organizations over the past year has been disclosed in the First Quarter 2025 Health-ISAC Heartbeat. While ransomware events saw a slight decrease in the third quarter of 2024, ransomware events continued to trend upward for the fourth quarter and into the first quarter of this year. VPN provider vulnerabilities and compromised credentials remained a consistent theme that caused risk for organizations. 

Health-ISAC provided 220 Targeted Alerts to specific Health-ISAC member organizations with potentially vulnerable infrastructure to help teams mitigate actively exploited vulnerabilities. 

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