The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warns that Chinese and North Korean state-sponsored cyber threat actors pose unique risks to US healthcare, having vast resources and sophistication comparable to top cybercriminal groups. APT41 from China and APT43 and Lazarus Group from North Korea frequently target healthcare data through espionage, IP theft, and malware attacks. Healthcare organizations should leverage government resources and technical controls to mitigate these threats.
Nearly half of EMEA data breaches were due to internal blunders in 2023
A large number of data breaches are caused by non-malicious human errors, such as misusing privileges. Two-thirds of breaches involve human actions that are unintentional.
