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