Dr. Gururau Sudarshan, a physician near Cincinnati, Ohio, suffered a ransomware attack on his clinic in August. The attack, attributed to the group Helldown, forced him to manually rebuild medical records from scratch. He managed to recover approximately 80% of the data and did not experience any patient loss. Sudarshan chose not to pay an unspecified ransom, a decision he doesn’t regret, despite the six-figure financial impact, which his insurance did not fully cover.
The Hidden Cracks in Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem
Ransomware attacks on hospitals are just the tip of the iceberg in the healthcare sector, with interconnected weaknesses across medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, insurers,
