Iran conflict elevates cyber risk for healthcare

United States and Israel military strikes on Iran could erupt into cyberattacks against the healthcare sector in the U.S. and elsewhere by Iranian sympathizers and proxies, experts warned Monday.

The life-and-death sensitivity of the healthcare sector, as well as its relative vulnerability to cyber incidents, makes it a target for rising attacks ranging from distributed denial of service, wiper malware, ransomware, data theft and other such assaults.

“The current threat landscape is heavily driven by hacktivist groups which operate across international infrastructure and are geographically dispersed,” said JP Castellanos, director of threat intelligence at security firm Binary Defense. “Their operational infrastructure isn’t dependent on Iranian connectivity”

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