Are you surprised to learn that Healthcare was in the Top 10 Cyberattacks of 2024?
MSSPAlert.com reported that “The cyberthreat landscape continued to expand and accelerate in 2024, keeping MSSPs busy, as bad actors expanded their arsenals – in particular, their embrace of generative AI – and tactics, including their growing use of cybercrime-as-a-service, which gave criminals new revenue streams and lesser-skilled hackers easy access to ready-to-use tools for launching increasingly sophisticated attacks.” The December 27, 2024 article entitled “Top 10 Cyberattacks of 2024” (https://www.msspalert.com/news/a-look-at-some-of-the-biggest-cyberattacks-of-2024?nbd=%7B%7Blead.HumId%7D%7D&nbd_source=mrkto&utm_source=mssp-daily&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=MTg4LVVOWi02NjAAAAGXtuRv6ftjB2RkMjRO80r8cxmThZU8HzF5dxUFpsQ01CwpwTAuFwcyhBQijEChr5mA_WIL_MjnVXhmW8dto-eUR8CEPUPoWyE_Un-MYIOwg-QV) included these comments:
State-sponsored threat groups from foreign adversaries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran put critical infrastructure in the United States and other countries in their crosshairs for espionage and other purposes, including in the case of North Korea to steal money to bypass international sanctions and fund their massive weapons operations.
Ransomware gangs, which long saw financial institutions as their primary targets, were increasingly turning their attention to the healthcare industry. As Bob Palmer, director of product marketing for cybersecurity firm ColorTokens, wrote in a blog post, financial firms improved their defenses over the years, so the bad actors began looking for other victims and put hospitals and similar organizations in their sights.
Here are the Top 10 Cyberattacks for 2024 with lots of HEALTHCARE:
1. Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack
2. Snowflake Users Breached
3. China's Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon
4. National Public Data is Breached
5. Midnight Blizzard Targets Microsoft Execs
6. Flaws in ConnectWise's ScreenConnect Exploited
7. Kaiser and Ascension Attacks
8. OpenAI Foils 20 Attempts to Use Its LLMs
9. Internet Archive Attack Exposes 31 Million Files
10. Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers
No surprises here!