The frequency of hacker attacks on medical institutions is even higher than in the financial sector!
Recently, TrapX published a report called MEDJACK2 detailing the large-scale attacks on hospitals and other medical institutions on a regular basis. TrapX is a network security company that released a similar report last year called MEDJACK1, which was a follow-up to the MEDJACK2 report. TrapX found that more and more attacks were carried out on the network of medical institutions. What is even more worrying is that many of the hospital's internal network security facilities are simply unable to withstand attacks. The issues raised in the MEDJACK series of reports have caused widespread public concern. Imagine that when financial institutions are attacked, they are suffering economic losses. However, once the hospital is attacked, the patient's life safety will be greatly threatened, and some unscrupulous people can rush into the medical record and prescription system to carry out malicious tampering or destruction. Hackers start from the vulnerability system What is even more worrying is that many hospitals currently have a lot of Internet-based medical equipment , including life-sustaining devices such as pacemakers and ventilators. Once the hacker cracks the hospital's device network system, he can gain access to the pacemaker and ventilator, and the consequences are unimaginable. Although such events in the past will only appear in science fiction, but now, it is likely to become a reality. TrapX's report describes how hacker's criminal practices are implemented, and points out that they have focused their attention on medical institutions that are still using vulnerabilities to older operating systems. The hackers put some new technologies into the software and successfully bypassed the traditional security firewall and entered the hospital network to access sensitive data. There is a black market transaction in patient data However, one thing can alleviate the panic caused by the TrapX report. That is to say, most of these hackers just want to get the data that can be sold, rather than really want to create confusion. There is evidence that skilled hackers, after attacking medical institutions, will try their best to obtain valuable patient medical records, so as to obtain considerable profits through the black market. In the past year, the medical institution network has frequently made headlines due to attacks. The MEDJACK 2 report indicates that the phenomenon described in MEDJACK 1 is not an accident, but a beginning, and such events are also intensifying. According to TrapX CEO Greg Enriquez, more and more hackers use sophisticated and sophisticated attack strategies to steal patient data, but most medical institutions are still ignorant. Analytical Instrument,Soil Nutrient Tester,Nitrogen Soil Tester,Digital Nitrogen Soil Tester Guangdong Widinlsa International Co.Ltd , https://www.widinlsa.com