CISA Releases Fact Sheet Detailing Embedded Backdoor Function of Contec CMS8000 Firmware

CISA released a fact sheet, Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor, detailing an analysis of three firmware package versions of the Contec CMS8000, a patient monitor used by the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health HPH sector. Analysts discovered that an embedded backdoor function with a hard-coded IP...

Healthcare's Diagnosis is Critical: The Cure is Cybersecurity Hygiene

Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a hospital's systems are held hostage by ransomware, it's not just data at risk — it's the care of patients...

Exploit for Cross-site Scripting in Phpgurukul Hospital_Management_System

CVE-2023-7173: Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in Hospital M...

Measures Healthcare Providers Can Take to Mitigate Disruptions

Earlier this month, an internet outage affected public healthcare clusters in Singapore, including major hospitals and polyclinics, lasting more than seven hours from 9:20 am. Investigations identified that a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack was the cause of the online service outage. DD...

Ransomware Risk in Healthcare Endangers Patients

In the last two years, COVID-19 has occupied healthcare providers’ minds — rightfully so, considering the pandemic’s tremendous toll on patients. But another threat that causes immense harm gets less attention: ransomware. While ransomware attacks receive lots of headlines, the irreparable damage...

SOOIL Dana Diabecare RS Products

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: SOOIL Developments Co., Ltd. Equipment: Diabecare RS, AnyDana-i and AnyDana-A Vulnerabilities: Use of Hard Coded Credentials, Insufficiently Protected Credentials, Use of Insufficiently Random...

Misery of Ransomware Hits Hospitals the Hardest

Despite hospitals being on the front lines during the pandemic, bad actors have continued to target them with ransomware. In addition to wreaking havoc on operational processes in medical facilities at the worst possible time, the attacks have evolved to threaten patient safety. In September,...

Ransomware Attacks Leave U.S. Hospitals Turning Away Patients

A rash of ransomware attacks this week targeted hospitals in the U.S. and Australia. The cyberattacks froze the computer systems of several medical facilities, to the point where they needed to turn away new patients and even cancel surgery appointments. A ransomware attack, reported on Tuesday,...

Max-Severity Bug in Infusion Pump Gateway Puts Lives at Risk

Researchers have disclosed two separate vulnerabilities within the Becton Dickinson Alaris Gateway Workstation for medical infusion pumps in hospitals, one carrying a critical rating of 10 out of 10 on the CVSS v.3 severity scale. Alaris Gateway Workstations power, monitor and control infusion...

Medtronic's Implantable Defibrillators Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Hacks

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Thursday issued an advisory warning people of severe vulnerabilities in over a dozen heart defibrillators that could allow attackers to fully hijack them remotely, potentially putting lives of millions of patients at risk. Cardioverter Defibrillator is a...

Remote Code Implantation Flaw Found in Medtronic Cardiac Programmers

A flaw in Medtronic’s CareLink 2090 and CareLink Encore 29901 programmers, which are portable computer systems used to manage implanted cardiac devices in clinical settings, would have allowed remote code implantation over Medtronic’s dedicated Software Deployment Network SDN. The programmers are...

With Healthcare Security Flaws, Safety’s Increasingly at Stake

LAS VEGAS – The healthcare space continues to face threats when it comes to cybersecurity – and researchers are concerned that security threats are evolving from impacting patient data privacy to actually threatening patient safety. A lax culture around cybersecurity from medical device...

Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000

Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 In which we detail the process of vulnerability research on a life critical embedded system: a medical infusion pump. Table of Contents Remote Code Execution on the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000 Table of Contents Summary Introduction Why ...

Multiple flaws found in smart syringe pump

A syringe pump is a small infusion pump that delivers liquids, either medication or nutrients, in small quantities into the patient's system. Hospitals, nursing homes, and homes with residents under acute or palliative care use them. Accurate and safe delivery of dosage from a variety of syringes...

Shorting-For-Profit Viable Business Model For Security Community

LAS VEGAS–Justine Bone shook up the security research community last year when she decided to do the unconventional. The CEO of MedSec Holdings teamed with hedge fund company Muddy Waters Capital to short the stock of St. Jude Medical in order to profit from research that revealed life-threatenin...

FDA Demands St. Jude Take Action on Medical Device Security

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent Abbott Laboratories a warning letter citing that it had inadequately addressed the security of the maligned Merlin@home Transmitter. The letter promises regulatory action against the healthcare company should vulnerabilities in the device...

St. Jude Medical Patches Vulnerable Cardiac Devices

St. Jude Medical today released an update for the Merlin@home Transmitter medical device that includes a patch for vulnerabilities made public last year in a controversial disclosure by research company MedSec Holdings and hedge fund Muddy Waters. In a paper published last August, Muddy Waters sa...

Animas OneTouch Ping Insulin Pump Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Rapid7 has identified vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity of the Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump system. Animas will not be releasing a patch or new version to mitigate these vulnerabilities. Animas has provided compensating controls to help reduce the risk associated with the...

Medical Study Blasts Hospitals' Security Practices

A scathing rebuke of medical professionals’ attitudes toward information security reveals nurses and doctors fumble over protocols often putting patients at risk. The revealing study, “Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations PDF,” offers a fascinating look behind the privacy...

Hospital Security Fail: Report Outlines Dangerous Shortcomings

Hospitals are risking patient lives by failing to protect critical computer systems that can be manipulated by attackers. In a scathing report that looks at the current state of hospital security, researchers say everything from bedside patient monitoring systems, automated drug dispensing machin...