--- title: When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue | daily.dev description: Recent cyberattacks across healthcare, finance, and infrastructure reveal a consistent pattern: attackers gain initial access and move laterally through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-hospitals-go-dark-and-browsers-turn-rogue-cw2hjbpmf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue | daily.dev og:description: Recent cyberattacks across healthcare, finance, and infrastructure reveal a consistent pattern: attackers gain initial access and move laterally through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-hospitals-go-dark-and-browsers-turn-rogue-cw2hjbpmf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cW2hjBpmF.png og:image:alt: When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # When Hospitals Go Dark and Browsers Turn Rogue **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Recent cyberattacks across healthcare, finance, and infrastructure reveal a consistent pattern: attackers gain initial access and move laterally through networks for weeks or months before detection. Healthcare breaches at AllerVie, Artemis, and Central Maine lasted 1-8 weeks, exposing patient records. A browser extension campaign infected 8.8 million users across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. Financial services faced disruptions in France and vendor-related breaches in the US. The RondoDox botnet exploited IoT devices for persistent access. The primary risk is lateral movement in flat networks, which microsegmentation and network containment strategies can effectively limit. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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