Security News > 2023 > April > CISA Warns of Critical Flaws in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Instruments

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released an Industrial Control Systems medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices.

"Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take any action at the operating system level," CISA said.

"A threat actor could impact settings, configurations, software, or data on the affected product; a threat actor could interact through the affected product via a connected network."

The Food and Drug Administration said an unauthorized user could weaponize the shortcoming to impact "Genomic data results in the instruments intended for clinical diagnosis, including causing the instruments to provide no results, incorrect results, altered results, or a potential data breach."

This is not the first time severe flaws have come to light in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Devices.

The disclosure comes almost a month after the FDA issued new guidance that will require medical device makers to adhere to a set of cybersecurity requirements when submitting an application for a new product.

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