This text excerpt from the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare examines the growing threat of ransomware attacks on the healthcare industry. It highlights the vulnerabilities created by the transition to electronic health records (EHRs), which makes valuable personal health information (PHI) more accessible to cybercriminals.
The authors discuss the rise of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), which makes it easier for novice hackers to launch attacks, and analyze the WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled the U.K.’s National Health Service.
They argue that the healthcare sector is ill-prepared for these threats, lacks sufficient cybersecurity spending, and needs to adopt a new security architecture based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to effectively prevent ransomware attacks.
