Abstract:In our paper we analyze the attack surface of German hospitals and healthcare providers in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The analysis looked at the publicly visible attack surface utilizing a Distributed Cyber Recon System, utilizing distributed Internet scanning, Big Data methods and scan data of 1,483 GB from more than 89 different global Internet scans. From the 1,555 identified German clinical entities, security posture analysis was conducted by looking at more than 13,000 service banners for version … Show more
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