Healthcare is the only industry in which there were more internal actors behind cyber incidents than external in the last year, according to Verizon's 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
The report, which covered various industries beyond healthcare, such as education, financial and insurance, information, and the public sector, revealed a core finding that ransomware attacks are a key cybersecurity threat for global organizations. In fact, ransomware is the most common type of malware, found in 39 percent of malware- related data breaches - double that of last year's DBIR - and accounts for over 700 incidents. What's more, Verizon's analysis found that attacks are now moving into business critical systems, which encrypt file servers or databases, inflicting more damage and commanding bigger ransom requests.