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University of Washington researchers mount cyberattacks on surgical robot, exposing vulnerabilities.
Security vulnerabilities in surgical robots have been exposed by researchers, who hacked next generation systems to prove that they could be hijacked remotely.
Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) carried out a series of cyberattacks on teleoperated (remotely operated) surgical robots using non-private networks.
Various attack techniques were utilised, including a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that overloaded the robot with useless data and made it difficult to operate.
A "man in the middle" attack succeeded in altering the commands sent from the operator to the robot, disrupting a wide range of the machine's functions.
Scary.