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April 15, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO — The health care sector has become the hot target for hackers in recent months, according to researchers at Symantec, a leading cybersecurity company that says it's also seeing big increases in “spear-phishing,” “ransomware” and efforts to exploit newly discovered vulnerabilities in software used by a wide range of industries.
After a wave of high-profile attacks on banks and retailers over the last two years, almost 80 percent of the calls to Symantec's global “incident response” service since December have come from health organizations, said Robert Shaker, a Symantec official who oversees the commercial service.
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