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‘Help! My robot vac is stealing my Bitcoin’: When smart devices attack
Imagine waking up one morning to find your robot vacuum on the fritz, your refrigerator asking you for ransom money and your crypto and bank accounts completely drained. No, its not the plot of Stephen Kings trashy 1986 horror Maximum Overdrive (about a rogue comet that triggers a global outbreak of sentient killer machines). Instead, its what could happen if hackers decided to infiltrate your PC through one of your homes many smart devices, which is more likely now with an estimated 18.8 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices globally and around 820,000 IoT attacks on average per day.
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