Malware Detection Approaches and Analysis for the Internet of Medical Things Enabled Healthcare Systems

Abstract

The advancement of information and communications technology has changed an IoMT-enabled healthcare system. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) that focuses on smart healthcare (medical) device connectivity. While the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) communication environment facilitates and supports our daily health activities, it also has drawbacks such as password guessing, replay, impersonation, remote hijacking, privileged insider, denial of service (DoS), and man-in-the-middle attacks, as well as malware attacks. Malware botnets cause assaults on the system's data and other resources, compromising its authenticity, availability, confidentiality and, integrity. In the event of such an attack, crucial IoMT communication data may be exposed, altered, or even unavailable to authorised users. As a result, malware protection for the IoMT environment becomes critical. In this paper, we provide several forms of malware attacks and their consequences. We also go through security, privacy, and different IoMT malware detection schemes