{"id":237014,"date":"2026-04-29T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/a-quarter-of-healthcare-organizations-report-medical-device-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:25:14","slug":"a-quarter-of-healthcare-organizations-report-medical-device-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/a-quarter-of-healthcare-organizations-report-medical-device-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quarter of Healthcare Organizations Report Medical Device Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Quarter of Healthcare Organizations Report Medical Device Attacks<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/quarter-healthcare-medical-device\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-29 06:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

One-in-four (24%) healthcare organizations (HCOs) experienced cyber-attacks impacting medical devices over the past year, causing potentially significant disruption to patient care, according to RunSafe Security.<\/p>\n

The security vendor polled 551 healthcare professionals across the US, UK and Germany to produce its 2026 Medical Device Cybersecurity Index.<\/p>\n

It revealed that, in 80% of cases, attacks affecting devices had a \u201cmoderate\u201d or \u201csignificant\u201d impact on patients.<\/p>\n

This could range from delayed imaging and postponed procedures to interruptions to critical care delivery, RunSafe claimed.<\/p>\n

Read more on medical devices: Nine in Ten Healthcare Organizations Use the Most Vulnerable IoT Devices<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity is increasingly being integrated into procurement and operations. Some 82% of respondents said they have deployed or are actively piloting runtime exploit protection, 84% said they include cyber in vendor RFPs, and 76% that they would pay extra for advanced protection.<\/p>\n

However, legacy equipment continues to expose many HCOs.<\/p>\n

Over two-fifths (44%) of responding organizations said they use devices with known, unpatched vulnerabilities, and 28% admit operating devices past end-of-support.<\/p>\n

Medical Device Manufacturers Hit by Major Cyber-Attacks<\/h2>\n

The findings come as device manufacturers themselves come under attack.<\/p>\n

This week, US giant Medtronic admitted suffering a data security incident after notorious extortion group ShinyHunters listed the firm on its leak site in mid-April.<\/p>\n

The threat actors claimed to have exfiltrated more than nine\u00a0million records containing personal information, alongside large volumes of internal corporate data.<\/p>\n

Separately, Fortune 500 medical technology vendor Stryker was impacted in March when the Iranian-sponsored Handala group wiped tens of thousands of corporate devices after accessing an Intune admin account.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe findings land against a backdrop of large-scale healthcare cyber incidents that have disrupted care…<\/p>\n

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