Category: internet of things
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Hacking a Robot Vacuum
Hacking a Robot Vacuum Someone tries to remote control his own DJI Romo vacuum, and ends up controlling 7,000 of them from all around the world. The IoT is horribly insecure, but we already knew that. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth
Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory. CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections, allowing an attacker who is in Bluetooth range of the targeted device to pair with it. The attacker could then control the wheelchair’s movements, override…
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IoT Hack
IoT Hack Someone hacked an Italian ferry. It looks like the malware was installed by someone on the ferry, and not remotely. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic.…