FDA, CISA: Illumina Medical Devices Vulnerable to Remote Hacking

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued public notifications regarding serious vulnerabilities affecting the Universal Copy Service (UCS) component used in several Illumina genetic sequencing instruments.

Although there are no known attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities, the FDA warns that hackers could exploit them to remotely control a device or alter configurations, settings, software, or data on the device or user network. Additionally, exploitation could impact genomic data results in instruments …

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