Hospitals on the front line of cyberattacks are increasingly strained under the often deadly conditions created by such hacks. Capitalizing on the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals frequently shut down hospital networks at a time when they were overwhelmed, leading to limited emergency services, canceled surgeries, and a spike in deaths. Hackers used to treat hospitals as ‘off limits.’ Not the case anymore.
Cyber-attacks have long been viewed as less lethal than missile strikes,
