Healthcare sector 340% more prone to IT security threats

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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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