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Healthcare Industry Still in Ransomware Crosshairs

27% of healthcare IT workers in North America report that their organizations had been hit with a ransomware attack within the past year. 85% of Canadians and 78% of Americans said there had been up to five ransomware attacks in the past five years or more. 33% report that these cyber attacks had happened more than once. Ransomware represented the most fearsome malware in 2017, thanks to such campaigns as WannaCry, Petya/NotPetya and SamSam. In 2017, healthcare organizations were the victims of 45% of ransomware attacks.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ransomware/healthcare-industry-still-in-ransomware-crosshairs/a/d-id/748484

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