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What exactly are the risks related to internet-connected medical devices? The hit TV show Homeland popularized the idea of an attacker assassinating someone by taking over a pacemaker. While this is not beyond the realm of possibility, the most common forms of attack utilizing internet-connected medical devices are ransomware and distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS).¹ In the former case, the attacker takes over a system (often with malware, but sometimes with a password) and prevents (often through the use of encryption) the end user from using the system. In latter case, the attacker will own the device and use it to attack other sites.