Experts warn that the growing reliance on medical devices brings an increased risk to cybersecurity in health care. As medical devices evolve from simple to complex, becoming increasingly interconnected within healthcare networks, so too does their vulnerability to cyber attacks. Older, legacy devices pose a particular threat due to their ageing and potentially unstable security systems, with patches often not an option for risk mitigation.
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Novel SSH backdoor leveraged in Chinese cyberespionage attacks
The new Coyote trojan variant attack uses a LNK file to execute a PowerShell command, which helps retrieve a PowerShell script for launching the trojan.