Health-ISAC’s 2026 report warns of evolving threats like AI-driven attacks, sophisticated social engineering, and legacy device vulnerabilities
On January 21, the non-profit organization Health-ISAC released the 2026 Global Health Sector Threat Landscape report, which predicts that AI (artificial intelligence)-enabled attacks will be a top concern for 2026.
According to the report, ransomware remains the primary threat to the health sector, with prolific groups like Qilin, INC Ransom, and the rapidly expanding SAFEPAY leading the threat landscape. However, the most alarming trend is the continued shift and acceleration by threat actors toward exploiting supply chains. Major security incidents throughout 2025 repeatedly showed that a provider’s security is only as strong as its weakest vendor link, resulting in widespread breaches that affected millions of patient records and prompting a major industry-wide reassessment of third-party risk management.
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