- Uncover Critical Cybersecurity Gaps: Learn how Trustwave SpiderLabs' Red Team identified vulnerabilities in a US-based healthcare system.
- Real-World Red Team Insights: Explore key findings from simulated attacks that reveal how adversaries could compromise sensitive data.
- Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends: Access exclusive reports highlighting emerging threats and ransomware tactics targeting the healthcare sector.
The best way to gauge the current state of an organization’s security posture is often with a blunt lesson, and a Red Team exercise might be the bluntest way to rip off the band-aid to see what security problems exist.
That concept is the genesis behind the Trustwave SpiderLabs report Healthcare Sector Deep Dive: Unmasking Security Gaps. This offering follows the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Healthcare Sector, a broader and more comprehensive report that provides a thorough look at emerging cyber adversary tactics and key ransomware trends affecting the healthcare industry.
SpiderLabs has a track record in the healthcare industry of finding remarkable, possibly life-saving issues before it did any damage.
Examining the Patient
This report covers the process and results of a Red Team exercise conducted on a US-based health system that hired Trustwave SpiderLabs to perform a Red Team on its environments.
The several-week-long Red Team events focused specifically on achieving privilege escalation or abusing user privileges to attempt further exploitation of the environment.
The Red Team reported four key findings to the client, any one of which could have led to a threat actor gaining access to critical patient and organizational information.
The report details how SpiderLabs’ Red Team gained initial access, then the ability to conduct arbitrary code execution, and set up a beacon to enumerate the network further and inject subsequent binaries. This, in turn, led to the team bypassing the EDR and installing a brute ratel beacon, allowing the team to pass commands remotely through the beacon.
The end result was the Red Team gaining access to various types of critical information and systems that, if exploited, could lead to a data breach, ransomware, or even the destruction of critical systems.
This article is just a brief synopsis of the very detailed work covered in the report. Download Healthcare Sector Deep Dive: Unmasking Security Gaps to see how Trustwave SpiderLabs' Red Team uncovered vulnerabilities before they could be exploited.
For a broader view of emerging threats and ransomware trends, access the 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Healthcare Sector and Healthcare Sector Deep Dive: Ransomware Trends and Impact.
There are also three accompanying webinars in which Trustwave SpiderLabs experts will explain the reports’ findings in greater detail.
- The 2025 Healthcare Risk Radar Report: The latest trends in healthcare cyber threats
- Deep Dive on Ransomware Trends and Impacts: How attackers are targeting patient care
- Deep Dive on Unmasking Security Gaps: A real-world attack, analyzed step-by-step
Register here for all three webinars.
