Mr. Sai Huda reports

CYBERCATCH PUBLISHES HEALTH INDUSTRY CYBER SAFETY GUIDE FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS IN U.S. FACING IMMINENT CYBER THREATS

Cybercatch Holdings Inc. has published the health industry cyber safety guide for health care organizations in the United States.

There are approximately 600,000 health care organizations in the U.S. that are facing an unprecedented level of cyber risk.

Cybercatch's health industry cyber safety guide reveals that, as of June 30, 2025:

• There are at least two successful cyber attacks and data breaches every day.
• Already for the first six months of 2025, data breaches have affected over 28.5 million individuals.
• Data breaches increased 296 per cent in 2024 from the prior year, and already the number of data breaches in the first six months of 2025 are 77 per cent of the previous year.

According to IBM, the average cost of a health industry data breach in 2024 was $9.77-million, the highest among all industry sectors.

Cybercatch's health industry cyber safety guide:

• Provides a detailed analysis for the first half of 2025;
• Reveals why bad actors are being successful;
• Explains what risk mitigation must be taken;
• Provides a seven-step cyber safety checkup checklist.

The bad actors are targeting not only large-, but also small- and mid-size health care providers, ranging from medical practices, labs, pharmacies, nursing facilities, hospitals and insurance providers.

The cyber attackers are penetrating defences and installing ransomware and stealing valuable confidential, sensitive patient data and demanding hefty ransom payments and disrupting patient care.

"Cybercatch recently launched an innovative cyber risk mitigation solution for the health care vertical market in the U.S. and is pleased to have conducted research to publish this timely guide for the health industry in the U.S. that is facing a cyber attack epidemic. The guide will help any health care organization quickly become more risk aware and attain cyber safety. Cyber safety is patient safety," said Sai Huda, chief executive officer, Cybercatch.

About Cybercatch Holdings Inc.

Cybercatch provides a proprietary, artificial-intelligence-enabled software-as-a-service solution that provides continuous compliance and cyber risk mitigation to organizations in critical segments, so they can be safe from cyber threats. The Cybercatch platform focuses on solving the root cause of why cyberattacks are successful: security holes from control deficiencies. It first helps implement all mandated and necessary controls, and then the platform automatically and continuously tests the controls from three dimensions (outside in, inside out and social engineering) to find control failures so one can fix them promptly to stay compliant and safe from attackers.