Understanding Cyber Threats in the Health Care and Social Assistance Landscape

### Executive summary ReliaQuest's HSA Sector Threat Landscape finds that spearphishing (links and attachments), exploitation of public-facing applications, and abuse of external remote services are the most common attack vectors against healthcare organizations, with rising infostealer activity and hacktivist DDoS targeting; the report recommends automation, digital risk protection, and AI-driven defenses to reduce mean time to contain and protect patient-facing services.