In England’s NHS Trust hospitals, millions of medical devices are now entirely vulnerable to ransomware attacks by cybercriminal groups.
These ostensibly safe online gadgets, such surveillance cameras and blood pressure monitors, are either unable to run security software or rely on outdated versions. They frequently receive no monitoring at all.
When hackers leapfrog from these devices into the key areas of hospital networks, they can bring down entire hospital systems and leave a path of technological carnage in their wake.
There have already been significant instances in North America and other parts of the world where security specialists were called in to deal with the fallout from these scenarios, some of which were the result of human error.
This is a ticking time bomb, and the actual magnitude of the threats was revealed earlier this week by Armis
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