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Ransomware Is Coming to Medical Devices

»motherboard.vice.com/rea ··· -devices


Chest pains send you into convulsions, then stop abruptly. Is something wrong with your pacemaker? As you pant for breath, a message pops up on your phone. "Want to keep living? Pay us a ransom now, or you die."

This is not cyberpunk dystopia, but a probable near future, according to a report released last week by Forrester Research. The number one cybersecurity prediction for 2016: "We'll see ransomware for a medical device or wearable."...


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Sounds like a plot for an episode of CSI Cyber.