HYDERABAD: The healthcare sector was one of the worst-hit sectors in major breaches in 2023, with over 1 million records stolen. Netskope Threat Labs has discovered in its latest research report that it is the leading malware and ransomware family used by information thieves to target the healthcare sector globally. The report also highlighted the continued growth in cloud app adoption in healthcare, as well as malware trends across the sector. Infostealer is a prominent healthcare malware family that steals valuable data from organizations and patients for further extortion or ransom demands. This report is based on anonymized usage data collected for a subset of Netskope’s 2,500+ clients around the world in the healthcare sector, showing that healthcare will see the highest number of malware downloads in 2023. It increased rapidly, but then decreased in the second half of the year. The report found that around 40% of malware downloads in the healthcare sector declined slightly in the second half of the year after a peak of 50% in June. While healthcare trended slightly lower than other industries, cloud-delivered malware in this sector increased significantly each year, increasing by 30%. However, the healthcare sector appears to have the lowest percentage of malware delivered via the cloud over the past 12 months, ranking sixth behind telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, retail, technology, and state and local government. It accounts for about 40% of the total downloads. Additionally, cloud apps are increasingly targeted by malware because they give attackers the ability to bypass normal security controls that rely on tools such as domain block lists and web traffic monitoring, making such attacks more difficult. impacts companies that do not apply Zero Trust principles. You’ve found a report to regularly inspect your cloud traffic. Netskope researchers say that while malware and information thieves shouldn’t be the only concern in the healthcare sector, they also need to consider supply chain vulnerabilities and apply zero trust strategies to avoid being targeted by malware attacks. He said there is.
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