# Smart Humans... WannaDie?

## TL;DR

The paper discusses the emerging risks of IoT-connected human prostheses and devices, highlighting potential security threats like ransomware attacks that could endanger human health and privacy.

## Contribution

It introduces the concept of 'Smart Humans' as IoT-enabled bodies and explores the cybersecurity challenges and threats they face, including the novel ransomware 'WannaDie.'

## Key findings

- Potential for hacking of IoT-enabled human devices.
- Risks of ransomware attacks on medical and prosthetic devices.
- Need for security measures in future IoT-human integrations.

## Abstract

It won't be long until our prostheses, ECG personal monitors, subcutaneous insulin infusors, glasses, etc. become devices of the Internet of Things (IoT), always connected for monitoring, maintenance, charging and tracking. This will be the dawn of the Smart Human, not just a user of the IoT but a Thing in the Internet. How long would it then take for hackers to attack us like they have been attacking IoT devices? What would happen if hackers were able to blackmail us threatening our IoT body parts? Smart Humans may become victims of the devastating attack of WannaDie, a new ransomware that could provide the plot-line for a possible future episode of the Black Mirror TV series.