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The rush to roll out remote healthcare has also unleashed a universe of wearable medical devices to collect sensitive data, which researchers say are widely vulnerable to attack. Analysts with Kaspersky Labs reported finding 33 vulnerabilities last year in the most widely used data transfer protocol for internet of things medical devices, known as MQTT - that's 10 more than the previous year.

After a year of unprecedented ransomware attacks on hospitals and healthcare systems - and with healthcare now the #1 target for cybercriminals - critical medical device risks in hospital environments continue to leave hospitals and their patients vulnerable to cyber attacks and data security issues.Data shows that 53% of connected medical devices and other IoT devices in hospitals have a known critical vulnerability.