Cybersecurity Trends and Threats in the Healthcare Sector
Health-ISAC’s 2024 Q4 Healthcare Heartbeat provides observations of ransomware, cybercrime trends, and malicious actor forum postings that could potentially impact healthcare sector organizations for situational awareness.
Health-ISAC observed a continuous trend of cyber security incidents and data breaches impacting healthcare over the past year. While ransomware events saw a slight decrease in Q3 of 2024, ransomware events continued to trend upward for 2024. VPN provider vulnerabilities and compromised credentials remained aconsistent theme that caused risk for organizations.
Health-ISAC provided 229 Targeted Alerts to specific Health-ISAC member organizations with potentially vulnerable infrastructure to help teams mitigate common vulnerabilities and exploits (CVEs) and actively exploit vulnerabilities. The most common themes included open and exposed databases, remote access tools, and a PAN-OS weakness.
