The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued guidance to help healthcare organizations HC3 has issued a warning to the healthcare and public health sector about web application attacks and has shared mitigations for preventing and reducing the severity of attacks.
On the heels of an earlier Verizon report showing the ongoing rise in healthcare web app attacks, the Department of Health and Human Services Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued guidance on threat actor tactics and possible remediation strategies.
According to security vendor Radware's 2021-2022 Global Threat Analysis Report, the number of malicious web application requests climbed 88% – mor.
Cybercrime thrives during pandemic: Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report
Increase in phishing and ransomware attacks – along with continued high numbers of Web Application Attacks – underscore a year of unprecedented security challenges
What you need to know:
Report analyzes 29,207 quality incidents, of which 5,258 were confirmed breaches
Phishing attacks increased by 11 percent, while attacks using ransomware rose by 6 percent
85 percent of breaches involved a human element, while over 80 percent of breaches were discovered by external parties
Breach simulations found the median financial impact of a breach is $21,659, with 95 percent of incidents falling between $826 and $653,587
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