{"id":34,"date":"2018-05-04T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasperskycontenthub.com\/threatpost\/?p=131709"},"modified":"2018-05-04T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:27:09","slug":"abbott-addresses-life-threatening-flaw-in-a-half-million-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/abbott-addresses-life-threatening-flaw-in-a-half-million-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw in a Half-Million Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskycontenthub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/05\/04150307\/pacemaker.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Nearly a half-million pacemakers are up for a firmware update, to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) has released another upgrade to the firmware installed on certain implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) devices \u2013 a.k.a., pacemakers. About 465,000 patients are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raps.org\/regulatory-focus%E2%84%A2\/news-articles\/2017\/8\/abbott-recalls-465,000-pacemakers-for-cybersecurity-patch\">affected<\/a>. The update will strengthen the devices\u2019 protection against unauthorized access, as the provider said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjm.com\/en\/patients\/arrhythmias\/resources-support\/cyber-update\">statement<\/a> on its website: \u201cIt is intended to prevent anyone other than your doctor from changing your device settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patch is part a planned series of updates that began with pacemakers, programmers and remote monitoring systems in 2017, following 2016 claims by researchers that the then-St. Jude\u2019s cardiac implant ecosystem was rife with cybersecurity flaws that <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/pacemaker-hacking-fears-rise-with-critical-research-report\/120174\/\">could result in \u201ccatastrophic results.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At particular issue is a universal, hardcoded unlock code that, if discovered, would give a hacker backdoor access to all affected devices. Also, the Merlin@home transmitter was found to be vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack (this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/MedicalDevices\/Safety\/AlertsandNotices\/ucm604706.htm\">subject<\/a> of the latest patch). When taken together, the backdoor could be exploited to send commands from the Merlin@home transmitter, so that an attacker could manipulate the implants and cause heart problems and even death.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, from MedSec and Muddy Waters, resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/st-jude-faces-new-claim-heart-implants-are-hackable\/121504\/\">defamation suit<\/a> by the medical provider against the security researchers, but after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ICECI\/EnforcementActions\/WarningLetters\/2017\/ucm552687.htm\">damning FDA report<\/a> (and a U.S. Department of Homeland Security ICS-CERT <a href=\"https:\/\/ics-cert.us-cert.gov\/advisories\/ICSMA-17-009-01A\">advisory<\/a>) that backed up the concerns as legitimate, St. Jude subsequently started rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/st-jude-medical-patches-vulnerable-cardiac-devices\/122955\/\">updates<\/a>. It also issued a voluntary recall.<\/p>\n<p>That same FDA report also noted that St. Jude had been aware of the problem since at least 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Abbott is not alone in building devices without adequate security built into its design. Last year, 8,000 vulnerabilities were <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.whitescope.io\/2017\/05\/understanding-pacemaker-systems.html\">discovered<\/a> across seven different pacemaker programmers (a device used for programming pacemakers) from four different manufacturers. White Scope, which reported all of the vulnerabilities to DHS ICS-CERT, focused its research on programmers that have RF capabilities. Thousands of flaws in third-party libraries came to light\u2014and all of the programmers that White Scope examined had outdated software with known vulnerabilities. For instance, many of them run Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnected devices have become the weakest link in a hospital\u2019s cybersecurity chain,\u201d Leon Lerman, CEO at Cynerio, told Threatpost. \u201cThese connected devices were not built with security in mind, they very often run obsolete operating systems, use unsecure communication protocols and are typically out of scope for traditional IT security solutions, and therefore are difficult to protect. Hospitals must act to secure their ecosystem, and protect the data of their patients \u2013 the success of a cyberattack really could be a case of life or death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said that it has had no reports of hacking or unauthorized access to any patient\u2019s pacemaker, but the pacemaker-hacking scenario has been proven out in past security research. In 2012, the late IoT researcher Barnaby Jack, then at IOActive, demonstrated that several vendors\u2019 pacemakers could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2012-10\/hacker-attackers-could-reverse-pacemakers-distance-delivering-deadly-shocks\">remotely controlled<\/a> and commanded to deliver a 830-volt shock via a laptop, That is, of course, enough to kill someone, and Jack noted at the time that the vulnerabilities open the door to \u201cmass murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the number of IoT and connected devices being used within hospitals constantly increasing and diversifying in their nature, the exposure to potential breaches is great; [vulnerable] devices can vary from MRI machines to an insulin pump, the latter of which could result in an attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/vulnerabilities-in-insulin-pumps-can-lead-to-overdose\/121064\/\">administering a fatal dose<\/a>,\u201d Lerman said.<\/p>\n<p>In Abbott\u2019s case, getting the update requires an in-office visit, but it\u2019s non-intrusive: \u201cDuring the upgrade a wand will be placed over your ICD or CRT-D and will transfer the information to the device,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cAt the end of the process, the final settings on your device will be reviewed to ensure that the updates have been completed successfully. The upgrade process takes approximately three minutes to complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott also suggests that patients discuss with their doctor to find out if the update \u201cis right for you\u201d \u2013 a choice that at least one researcher flagged as indicative of not thinking cybersecurity through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to see security updates being pushed by medical device manufacturers, but turning the physician into a medical-device \u2018Genius Bar\u2019 employee seems like a questionable choice,\u201d said Rod Schultz, chief product officer at Rubicon Labs. \u201cThis process does not scale, and device security, firmware updates, and authentication are definitely not in the core competency of most heavily overworked physicians. This problem is only going to get harder to solve as we connect more and more devices, and cloud services to fix this problem are desperately needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott did not respond to a request for comment on this story.<\/p>\n<p> Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/abbott-addresses-life-threatening-flaw-in-a-half-million-pacemakers\/131709\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A backdoor could be exploited to allow an attacker to manipulate the implants and cause heart problems and even death, Read More 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