Hackers strike now also applied to digital TV boxes - Elsevier

by Wouter van Noort Apr 25, 2013

Criminals make money by hacking into set-top boxes – Photo: Reuters

In recent months, a new type of computer crime occur: hacking so-called set-top boxes for televisions, tables with an Internet connection. That says internet security expert Mikko HYPP? Ones of the Finnish F-Secure this week in Elsevier.

“For the first time we see that criminals make money from hacking into set-top boxes. They hijack the power of those devices and use it for illegal activities. What exactly occurs is still difficult to say because it is so new, but it is growing rapidly. “

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power of set-top boxes may be used for large-scale DDoS attacks such support, for example, it recently ING and DigiD, Hypponen said.

the power used to ‘mine’ the online currency Bitcoin, called minas, which takes a lot of computing power.

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