{"id":33252,"date":"2020-03-30T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=33252"},"modified":"2020-03-30T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:57:00","slug":"ransomware-hits-healthcare-hardest-preys-on-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/ransomware-hits-healthcare-hardest-preys-on-smbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware hits healthcare hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Samantha Ann Schwartz<\/a> – Ransomware<\/strong> targeted healthcare more than any other industry, accounting for 29% of total ransomware<\/strong> attacks in 2019, according to cyber insurer Beazley’s 2020 Breach Briefing report<\/a>. Professional services (14%) and financial institutions (11%) rounded out the top three targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ransomware<\/strong> increased 131% from 2018 to 2019. About six in 10 attacks were aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses as they are “easier to exploit,” according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations restoring their systems after a cyber incident could unintentionally ruin an investigation. Beazley described a small healthcare provider that restored its environment after a ransomware attack. However, during the remediation, any forensic evidence for determining if data was stolen was also wiped clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beazley has historically seen ransomware limited to only data encryption. Now, ransomware is also stealing data, leading to data breaches. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Samantha Ann Schwartz – Ransomware targeted healthcare more than any other industry, accounting for 29% of total ransomware attacks in 2019, according to cyber insurer Beazley’s 2020 Breach Briefing report. Professional services (14%) and financial institutions (11%) rounded out the top three targets.  Ransomware increased 131% from 2018 to 2019. About six in 10 attacks were aimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-33252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t