Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
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Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
Researcher Gjoko Krstic’s "Project Brainfog" exposed hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities in building-automation systems still running hospitals, schools, and offices worldwide.
Mercedes, Skoda, and Volkswagen vehicles, as well as untold industrial, medical, mobile, and consumer devices, may be exposed to a vulnerable Bluetooth implementation called "PerfektBlue."
The FDA's regulations and guidance aim to strike a balance between ensuring rigorous oversight and enabling manufacturers to act swiftly when vulnerabilities are discovered.
Until C-level executives fully understand potential threats and implement effective mitigation strategies, healthcare organizations will remain vulnerable and at risk of disruption.
"See one, teach one, do one" takes a page out of the healthcare playbook to reduce human vulnerabilities where they matter most in cybersecurity.
The vulnerabilities affect industrial control tech used across the healthcare and critical manufacturing sectors.
LLM automation tools and vector databases can be rife with sensitive data — and vulnerable to pilfering.
Privilege escalation flaws in the healthcare chatbot platform could have allowed unauthorized cross-tenant access and management of other customers’ resources.
A vulnerability in a DNA sequencer highlights the expanded attack surface area of healthcare organizations but also shows that reporting of medical device vulnerabilities works.
The health, manufacturing, and energy sectors are the most vulnerable to ransomware.
PTC has issued patches for seven vulnerabilities — three critical — in its widely used Axeda remote management technology.