The virus can manipulate the results of CT scans, which can add or remove cancerous tumors.
Israeli specialists point out the poor security of medical equipment and networks. The virus they created manipulated the images taken using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging so that false neoplastic tumors appeared on them. The malware was also able to remove actual tumors and abnormalities from the images. In both cases, this type of attack can have severe consequences for the patient. Infections are most often caused by accessing and connecting to hospital equipment via a cable or the internet. The Israelis discovered that many hospital networks are either directly connected to the Internet, or that the hospital has a device that can access both the Internet and the hospital’s internal network.