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HC3 Report Reveals Cyberattack Trends and Provides Insights to Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity

HIPAA Journal

That incident saw Biologist Joseph Popp distribute 20,000 floppy disks at the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm. The report shows how adversaries stepped up their attacks on the healthcare industry from 2014 through 2017. When used, the disks installed malicious code which tracked reboots.