Overview of HC3 Observations & Research
HC3’s Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team tracks notable cyber incidents affecting both US and global HPH entities, as well as attacks on non-HPH entities that may affect the HPH sector.
Because of the HPH sector’s attractiveness to ransomware actors, the HC3 CTI team pays particular attention to ransomware trends.
As HC3 CTI’s greatest priority is the US HPH sector, these findings are not representative of all incidents.
HC3 has tracked a total of 82 ransomware incidents impacting the healthcare sector worldwide so far this calendar year, as of May 25, 2021.
48 of these ransomware incidents (or nearly 60%) impacted the United States health sector.
Findings are based primarily on observations of ransomware extortion blogs, but also open source media reporting and breach notifications.
