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Healthcare Continues To Be Top Cyber Attack Target

Healthcare Continues To Be Top Cyber Attack Target

September 19, 2016

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Almost 90 percent of ransomware attacks during the second quarter of 2016 were on healthcare entities, according to a report by cybersecurity vendor NTTSecurity, previously Solutionary. Trailing healthcare were education (6 percent) and finance (4 percent), with attacks on all other industries combined accounting for less than 2 percent.

“As healthcare and education sectors continue to be plagued with ransomware and often pay the demanded ransoms, the probability of more targeted attempts in these sectors will increase,” the report stated.

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