http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500254005/Healthcare-sector-340-more-prone-to-IT-security-threats
By Bryan Glick
Editor in Chief
ComputerWeekly.com
23 Sep 2015
Healthcare organisations are 340% more likely to be hit by an IT security
incident than the average across all sectors, and 200% more likely to
experience data theft, according to research.
Medical information sells for 10 times more than other data on the black
market, making it a key target for cyber criminals, according to the study
from supplier Raytheon|Websense. The figures come from analysing telemetry
feeds from healthcare organisations all over the world, as part of the
five billion daily security events identified by the firm’s threat
intelligence network.
Hackers are much more likely to use certain forms of malware to target
healthcare organisations: They are 450% more likely than average to be hit
by the Cryptowall ransomware, a Trojan that encrypts files on a user’s
device and asks for payment to release the data.
The Dyre “man in the middle” malware turns up 300% more often in
healthcare – a phishing attack that directs users to fake banking websites
to steal their login details. And Dropper, which leaves malware to open up
backdoors onto systems, appears 376% more in healthcare – in the first
half of this year, 83% of all Dropper incidents worldwide took place in
the sector, according to the Websense survey.
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