Health sector sees significant increase in cyber attacks in Q2, Kroll finds

Cyber attacks targeting the healthcare sector dramatically increased during the second quarter of 2022, from 11 percent of all attacks against industry sectors in quarter one to 21 percent in quarter two, according to the latest threat report from cybersecurity firm Kroll.

“One of the largest trends that we were seeing in the second quarter was the targeting of health care,” Laurie Iacono, associate managing director of Kroll’s cyber risk practice, said at a Wednesday webinar on the report, “...