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Delivering a lethal dose of insulin, remotely stopping a pacemaker or even administering a deadly shock through a defibrillator are all real possibilities in the world of medical cybercrime, NBC 5 Investigates has found.

From Thursday on, several security firms reported a drastic uptick in the number of attacks that leverage the recently disclosed vulnerability in GNU Bash (CVE-2014-6271), widely known as Shellshock.

The new vulnerability in the Bash shell is the worst we've seen in many years. No software on critical systems can be assumed as safe.

Attacks against the Bash bug increase in volume and variety, with an emphasis on information gathering and botnet building.

As organizations work on a fix for the Bash system software flaw, security experts warn the response to this vulnerability is far from over.