Melissa Crespo, Kate Driscoll, Alex Iftimie, and Nathan Reilly authored an article for Managed Healthcare Executive explaining how healthcare organizations can prepare to prevent and respond to ransomware attacks after a rise in strikes on healthcare systems.
"Some ransomware groups specifically target the healthcare sector, believing that a successful attack is more likely to elicit a payment given the chaos it can cause," the authors wrote. "Increasingly, these attacks involve not just the encryption of systems and files, rendering them inaccessible until a ransom is paid, but also the theft of and threat to publish data in order to increase the leverage against victims. Such attacks have impacted the delivery of health services, at times, resulting in dire health outcomes."
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