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.