that ransomware attacks on health organizations have increased by 94% from 2020 to 2021, with 34% of organizations surveyed reporting an attack in 2020, and 66% reporting the same in 2021.
Sophos said that the rise in attacks have demonstrated that threats have become “more capable at executing the most significant attacks at scale,” which could partially be attributed to the rise and “growing success” of the ransomware-as-a-service model. The firm also noted, “Healthcare saw the highest increase in volume of cyber attacks as well as the complexity of cyber attacks compared to the cross-sector average of 57% and 59% respectively.”
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