100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack

[aelius]

Have you given shed to Zombies in your house? No? May be you have no idea about it. After Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles, Tablets…. Now its turn of your home appliances to be a weapon or a victim of cyber war.

Recently Security Researchers from Proofpoint found more than 100,000 Smart TVs, Refrigerator, and other smart household appliances compromised by hackers to send out 750,000 malicious spam emails.

As the ’Internet of Things’ becoming smart and popular it became an easy weapon for cyber criminals to launch large scale of cyber attacks.

“The attack that Proofpoint observed and profiled occurred between December 23, 2013 and January 6, 2014, and featured waves of malicious email, typically sent in bursts of 100,000, three times per day, targeting Enterprises and individuals worldwide."

Previously, such attacks were only drafted theoretically by researchers, but this is the first such proven attack involved smart household appliances that are used as 'thingBots'- Thing Robots.

Like your personal computers can be unknowingly compromised to built a huge botnet network that can be used to launch cyber attacks, in the similar way your Smart Household Appliances and other components of the "Internet of Things" can be transformed into slaves by the cyber criminals.

The worst thing with these smart appliances is that it can be easily approached by cyber criminals due to its 24 hour availability on the Internet with an add-on of poorly protected Internet environment i.e. Poor misconfiguration and the use of default passwords.

More than 25 percent of the volume was sent by things that were not conventional laptops, desktop computers or mobile devices; instead, the emails were sent by everyday consumer gadgets such as compromised home-networking routers, connected multi-media centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator. No more than 10 emails were initiated from any single IP address, making the attack difficult to block based on location -- and in many cases, the devices had not been subject to a sophisticated compromise; instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords left the devices completely exposed on public networks, available for takeover and use.

Now it seems that we have 100's of cyber weapon in our home or in another way 100's of vulnerable dynamites living with us.

This time it has been just a spam mail attack, but answer me.. How much damage could a group of well-trained hackers do, economic and otherwise, if they really wanted to? Reply us your views in the comment box (below). Stay with us, Stay Safe!

Source: 100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack - The Hacker News

Nota personala: Are cineva frate SSH pe vreun frigider ? HAHAHAHA

Cred ca vine era sa spuna vreunul: Ba, mai faci multe figuri aici ? Ca-ti trag un flood cu frigiderul de-ti tremura pijamaua!

Edited January 19, 2014 by aelius

[makav3li]

dos din frigider sau cuptor cu microunde! oricum si the internet of things are un cuvant de spus pt. toti prosti care uita unde isi lasa anumite lucruri gen:cheile de la masina .... o sa ii strige cheiile sa vina sa le ridice de unde au ramas pierdute.... total aiurea nu?!