John P. Melo Junior
Thousands of hacker attacks have been launched on a network of smart home devices designed by researchers to assess the risks that gadgets pose to consumers.
In the first week, the “honeypot” network went online, with 1,017 unique scanning or hacking attempts on the net, including smart TVs, printers, wireless security cameras, and Wi-Fi kettles, according to researchers. Directed to the device above. NCC Group, Which one? And that Global Cyber Alliance..
The attack continued to spread, reaching 12,807 the following week, of which 2,435 attempted to log in to the device with a weak default username and password.
Most devices in a “hackable home” environment were able to prevent attacks with basic security protection, but this does not mean that they are never at risk, researchers said in a statement. explained.
However, the most worrying issue we found was a connected camera with a weak default password, which allowed hackers to access the camera stream. However, the camera lens was taped.
“Most of these attacks are automated,” said Matt Lewis, an analyst at NCC Group, a UK cybersecurity firm.
“They don’t know what they’re targeting,” he told TechNewsWorld. “They just know how to access the service and try some common weak username and password combinations.”
“What stood out to us was the username and password administrators, which are common configurations on many devices,” he added.
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