Cyberattacks increased significantly in 2020, largely driven by a jump in attempts to extort healthcare organizations and acquire information related to COVID-19, according to a recent Crowdstrike report.
The "2021 Global Threat Report" outlines hacking campaigns in 2020 across all sectors in 10 countries.
Three takeaways:
- The report found 104 healthcare organizations were targeted by 18 ransomware organizations.
- Healthcare was the fifth most attacked sector, behind industrial engineering, manufacturing, technology and retail.
- Hackers from five foreign governments targeted the healthcare sector: North Korea, Iran, Russia, China and Vietnam.
"There's a couple major themes we saw throughout the last year: the most dominant feature I think is obviously COVID," Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at Crowdstrike, told Federal Computer Week. "The impact that COVID had in the cyber domain was absolutely mind boggling."
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