Medical Devices Under Attack

1. Global "Drive-by" attack
shutting down hospitals
WannaCry:
One healthcare system,
three attacks, three
medical devices
MEDJACK:
300,000
More than
systems hit worldwide
50UK National Health Services hospitals had
to cancel medical procedures and refer
patients to other clinics
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MEDICAL DEVICES
UNDER ATTACK
AAMI MEDICAL DEVICE ATTACKS CATEGORIZATION
TARGET
Medical devices attacked to
collect the information they
contain or to interfere with
their operation.
PIVOT
Attackers use medical
devices as footholds to
establish network
presence.
"DRIVE-BY"
Wide attacks aiming to infect
maximum targets infecting
medical devices due to their
weak security, as in the case of
WannaCry ransomware attack.
HEALTHCARE IS THE #1 BREACHED INDUSTRY IN 2018
2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report
PROMINENT MEDICAL DEVICE ATTACKS
Hospital #1:
Blood Gas Analyzers
as an entry point to
the network
Hospital #2:
PACS-based attack,
data exfiltrated to
China
Hospital #3:
X-Ray system backdoor
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