Experts told the newspaper “News”How attackers can hack home appliances and access personal data.
Igor Mihaylov, a leading expert at the Group-IB digital forensics laboratory, said the more “smart devices” there are in the home, the higher the risk of attackers accessing them. After that, scammers can access information about personal logins and passwords, and then banking services.
According to Mikhailov, the number of such attacks worldwide last year exceeded 1 billion.
Dmitry Galov, a cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky Lab, stated that some manufacturers do not pay enough attention to the security of gadgets and offer products with certain vulnerabilities to the market.
In particular, there have been cases where attackers gained access to home cameras and baby monitors, he said.
Pavel Myasoedov, Former Director of IT-Reserve saidhacking of the phone is indicated by SMS without frivolous or messages about changing the password.