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When it comes to security, 2024 was unfortunately a standout year for the healthcare sector. Kroll found that the healthcare industry was the most breached, had fairly immature incident response practices, and unfortunately suffered numerous cyberattacks culminating in a year that left healthcare boards thinking deeply of the overall risk to their businesses.

The European Union’s (EU) AI Act (the Act) represents landmark artificial intelligence (AI) regulation from the EU designed to promote trustworthy AI by focusing on the impacts on people through required mitigation of potential risks to health, safety and fundamental rights. The Act introduces a comprehensive and often complex framework for the development, deployment and use of AI systems, impacting a wide range of businesses across the globe.

Note: These vulnerabilities remain under active exploitation and Kroll experts are investigating. If further details are uncovered by our team, updates will be made to the Kroll Cyber Risk blog. A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-288) affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy (FG-IR-24-535) allows remote attackers to obtain super admin privileges via Node.js WebSocket traffic.

For many organizations, their online presence is not only critical to their commercial success but a key element of how they manage public perception. Yet from typosquatting to domain hijacking, authentic business websites are at significant risk of exploitation, with serious potential consequences. Domain monitoring enables organizations to defend against these types of threats by identifying potential issues early and taking effective action to mitigate the risks.