Cybersecurity threats target healthcare – SiliconANGLE [Video]

Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and bad actors attacking digital environments operate on the same principles as many of the organizations they target. It’s a risk-and-reward model, where the return on investment can be quite lucrative when a victim pays ransomware to get their data returned.

Ransomware attacks remain an ongoing threat, with healthcare becoming a prime target, according to one leading cybersecurity executive.

“We’ve seen a lot of targeting of healthcare organizations over the past several months,” said Charles Carmakal (pictured), chief technology officer of Mandiant (part of Google Cloud). “Threat actors realize that if you target a healthcare organization, if you disrupt their ability to give care to patients, those organizations will feel pretty compelled to potentially pay an extortion demand because being able to take care of human lives is obviously worth a certain value.”

Carmakal spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier and Savannah Peterson at mWISE 2024, during an exclusive broadcast on …