The threat landscape for healthcare organizations has shifted tremendously since the outset of COVID-19. The means, opportunities, and motives for threat actors targeting the sector have all changed in nature and increased in intensity. While the theft of private data andransomware continues to wreak havoc, there has also been a shift towards disruptive or destructive attacks, namely those that are leveraging vulnerabilities in the technology supply chain. One in four of those vulnerabilities known to be exploited by CISA, are device firmware vulnerabilities, and actors like the Conti/Trickbot group have doubled down on developing TTPs (Tools, Tactics and Procedures) that specifically target vulnerabilities in IT supply chain that allow them to evade traditional defenses found in medical environments.
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