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Ransomware Will Hit Hospitals. Rehearsals Are Key to Defense

ID: 77dc5b9e-69e5-5ed9-90cd-15a5ae41dc76

STIX ID: report--77dc5b9e-69e5-5ed9-90cd-15a5ae41dc76

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-04-01

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Arielle Waldman

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Executive summary: A healthcare CIO at RSAC 2026 described a real ransomware incident that disrupted hospital digital systems and patient care, stressing that partial or intermittent outages are common and require rehearsed, flexible downtime plans. Recommendations include redundant identity verification, prevalidated paper medication administration records, tabletop exercises involving frontline staff, and awareness of risks from unapproved AI tools.

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