Red faces on Red Square once again. Last July, I reported the hacking of SyTech, an entrepreneur from the Federal Security Service (FSB) who works on Internet surveillance technology. Now Russia has announced a shocking new security breach in the FSB ecosystem. He unveiled "a new weapon ordered by the security service", a weapon capable of carrying out cyberattacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) - the millions of connected devices that are now found in our homes and offices.
The goal of the so-called “Fronton program” is to exploit the IoT security vulnerabilities en masse - remember, these technologies are inherently less secure than other devices connected in homes and offices. One of the pirated technical documents reported by the BBC Russia even explains that "the Internet of Things is less secure than mobile devices and servers". Security contractors point out that the default "factory" passwords they keep are the obvious weakness that is easy to exploit.
-Sumit Tiwari
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