GE HealthCare recalled certain Revolution CT systems, the Apex, Ascend and CT lines, over a vulnerability in the AW Server deployed through the Edison Health Link CT Smart Subscription. About 200 systems worldwide, an FDA Class 2 recall, no breaches reported. Customers can keep using the systems while following cybersecurity best practices, which matters because a CT scanner is not a device a hospital takes offline to wait for a fix.

The affected piece is the connected-services layer, the AW Server reached through a cloud subscription. Every service you bolt onto a device to make it smarter is a new thing to secure. The subscription that ships analytics also ships a network path into the imaging chain.