The impact of ransomware, botnets and crypto mining will continue to impact hospitals and clinics in 2018.
More precise, targeted attacks including botnets and crypto mining are projected to overtake global attacks hospitals witnessed with WannaCry and NotPetya.
Healthcare Information Security teams must show risk tolerance and carefully monitor new trends in malware, patch management, and change management.
Ransomware via botnets and crypto mining will continue to drive agile healthcare technology solutions, This will impact business shifts in governance and policy across US healthcare facilities as new attacks continue to focus on financial based malware.
Moving into the new year global attacks may give way to targeted attacks, botnets and crypto mining that have been branded as WannaMine.