Healthcare sector targeted : what you need to know about the hackers very unusual strategy

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2020

Orange Cyberdefense’s Epidemiology Lab has published a report on cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector.

While COVID-19 infections around the world are exploding, cyber threat actors are trying to capitalise on this global health crisis by creating malwares or launching attacks with a COVID-19 theme. Last week, a COVID-19 testing centre was hit by a cyberattack, leading to a disruption in the proper functioning of the hospital. In the context of a global sanitary crisis due to a pandemic, risk of cyberattack must be given close attention to by hospital and healthcare organisations. In the following paper, we describe the risks involved for these organisations and our

Read the report here

About the author: OSINT Unit a division of the Orange Epidemiology Lab March 20th 2020 recommendations

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – Heathcare, cybercrime)

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