Defending Healthcare from the Growing Email Threat Landscape in 2025

Healthcare organizations remain prime targets for cybercriminals, with email-based attacks evolving in complexity and scale.

Healthcare organizations remain prime targets for cybercriminals, with email-based attacks evolving in complexity and scale. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced deception tactics, health systems, insurers, and their vendors must beat back these threats to safeguard patient data, ensure data security compliance, and maintain operational integrity.

Perhaps the most alarming trend we face now, in healthcare and other vital sectors, is the persistence of business email compromise (BEC) as a dominant attack vector. Cybercriminals have refined their impersonation techniques, with 88% of these attacks relying on executive and CEO spoofing to trick employees into transferring funds or revealing sensitive data. Since healthcare organizations frequently deal with confidential patient information, financial transactions, and regulatory compliance, these attacks pose a significant risk to the industry. 

Read on hitconsultant.net