Stefan Mileschin

Use one IoT to infect another

Insecurity experts have demonstrated a system which could be used to infect every intelligent lightbulb a city with malware.

A research team Dalhousie University in Canada and the Weizman Institute of Science in Israelhas set up a chain reaction attack that would take over Philips Hue smart lightbulbs across entire cities.

The attack involves writing a new operating system to one of the light bulb and then the infected bulb then uses its trusted status to spread the infection to all vulnerable bulbs in reach, until an entire city is infected. This would allow the attacker to turn all the city lights on or off permanently brick them, or exploit them in a massive DDoS attack.

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