Cybersecurity roundup: U.S. to ban Kaspersky antivirus; Cost of healthcare breaches way up

The White House plans to ban new sales of Kaspersky antivirus software amid concerns over its potential security risk to US infrastructure. It is feared that Kaspersky’s access to American IT systems could enable it to extract important data or to deploy malware. The ban follows a surge in cyberattacks on the healthcare sector, averaging 1,613 attacks a week in early 2023, with the cost of an average breach being nearly $11 million.