China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping keyloggers, and cryptominers. Forescout's Vedere Labs researchers on Monday sounded the alarm after identifying dozens of malware samples masquerading as Philips …

[An_Old_Dog]

End-User Response

(Hopefully) the end-user response to this will be to download such programs directly from the manufacturer's website, rather than from SuperPopularFilehosting com or HappyFriendlyFiles.cdn.

(Super-hopefully) end-users will malware-scan EVERYTHING they download before using/installing it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: End-User Response

I work in IT in the medical field and regularly have to assist providers with DICOM viewers. I guarantee that not only are patients going to download sketchy RAT-infested malware, but our doctors who get paid 10x what I do will find a way to install it as well, despite us having already deployed the legit software to their machines.