Ransomware Poses a Rising Threat to Hospital Operations

Health care organizations, such as HPMC, are under attack by cyber-criminals looking for easy money and nation-state actors seeking data. More than half of all midsize hospitals have signs of malware infections, according to data collected by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). Much of the activity, however, has gone unreported.

Ransomware has evolved into a serious threat. Starting with early programs that locked Windows systems more than a decade ago, the increasing use of encryption-enabled malware shows how ransomware has become more sophisticated.