Healthcare sector: Prevalent threats
amid a decrease in ransomware attacks
and insufficient resilience testing
The most common types of cyber attacks,
Healthcare organizations face:
(percent of respondents in 2023)
Phishing (91 %)
Scanning (60 %)
Fraudulent emails (82 %)
Malicious content (58 %)
A decline in ransomware attacks
in the healthcare sector was reported by 18 %
of respondents, indicating a gradual
long-term decrease.
35 %
30 %
25 %
20 %
Figure 20: Evolution of the number of
healthcare sector respondents who
reported ransomware attacks in a given
year (regardless of the success of the
attack) 2020–2023 (% of respondents)
34
15 %
2020
2021
2022
2023