{"id":142398,"date":"2022-07-17T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T15:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lives-are-at-stake-hacking-of-us-hospitals-highlights-deadly-risk-of-ransomware"},"modified":"2022-07-17T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T15:23:39","slug":"lives-are-at-stake-hacking-of-us-hospitals-highlights-deadly-risk-of-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lives-are-at-stake-hacking-of-us-hospitals-highlights-deadly-risk-of-ransomware","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lives are at stake\u2019: hacking of US hospitals highlights deadly risk of ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lives-are-at-stake-hacking-of-us-hospitals-highlights-deadly-risk-of-ransomware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations increased 94% from 2021 to 2022, according to a report from the cybersecurity firm Sophos. More than two-thirds of healthcare organizations in the US said they had experienced a ransomware attack in 2021, the study said, up from 34% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware attacks on healthcare are particularly common in the US, with 41% of such attacks globally having been carried out against US-based firms in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current outlook is terrible,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/israel-barak-50b1a71\">Israel Barak<\/a>, CISO of Cybereason. \u201cWe are seeing the industry experience an extremely sharp increase in both the quantity and level of sophistication of these attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations increased 94% from 2021 to 2022, according to a report from the cybersecurity firm Sophos. More than two-thirds of healthcare organizations in the US said they had experienced a ransomware attack in 2021, the study said, up from 34% in 2020. Ransomware attacks on healthcare are particularly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}