The Weaponization of Healthcare Technology: Medical Devices on the Cyber Frontline (Part 2)

From hospitals to battlefields, connected medical technologies are becoming attractive targets for nation-state adversaries, criminal organizations, and cyber actors.

This article continues our earlier "Hacking Humans" work, where we projected that medical devices could become the weakest link in cybersecurity, effectively turning patients into unwitting test subjects through outdated or vulnerable connected technologies.1 The CONTEC CMS8000, a patient monitor, shows that our projection became reality. While . . .