有话可说：社交媒体视角下的医疗保健勒索软件事件
Something to Talk About: Social Media as a Lens on Healthcare Ransomware Events
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中文总结 AI 辅助
本研究利用2018-2024年间1,628条Facebook和Reddit帖子，匹配212起真实勒索软件攻击，通过定量和定性分析揭示其对医院基础设施、患者护理及医疗服务提供者的影响，并探讨社交数据研究的潜力与局限。
中文摘要 AI 辅助
在现代，针对关键医疗保健组织（如医院和保险公司）的勒索软件攻击频繁发生，其影响范围从私人健康信息泄露到紧急、时间敏感的临床操作的严重中断。不幸的是，法律和经济激励使得医院很少分享关于这些攻击、其范围以及对患者护理下游影响的基本信息。在本文中，我们探索利用由医院和个人发布的公开社交媒体帖子，以获取关于这些攻击及其影响的更详细见解。我们收集了2018年至2024年间的1,628条Facebook和Reddit帖子，设计并评估了将帖子数据与212起真实勒索软件攻击进行匹配的技术，并进行了定量和定性分析，以探索此类攻击对关键医院基础设施、患者护理和医疗服务提供者的影响。最后，我们讨论了利用社交数据研究勒索软件攻击影响的潜力和局限性，并强调了未来研究的领域。
英文摘要
In the modern era, ransomware attacks on critical healthcare organizations---like hospitals and insurers---are frequent, with impacts ranging from leaked private health information all the way to serious disruptions of urgent, time-sensitive clinical operations. Unfortunately, legal and economic incentives make it uncommon for hospitals to share basic information about these attacks, their scope, and the downstream impacts to patient care. In this paper, we explore the use of public social media posts---authored both by hospitals and by individuals---to garner more detailed insights about these attacks and their effects. We collect 1,628 Facebook and Reddit posts from 2018--2024, design and evaluate techniques to match post data to 212 ground-truth ransomware attacks, and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses that explore the impacts such attacks have on critical hospital infrastructure, patient care, and providers. We conclude by discussing the promise and limitations of leveraging social data to study the impact of ransomware attacks and highlight areas of future research.
发表机构
- University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）
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