Security News > 2018 > March > Robots hijacked by ransomware may soon become a reality

How soon will we see our home, office or industrial robots being hijacked and held ransom by attackers? If they dedicate their efforts to research, that day may come sooner rather than later. Attack demonstration IOActive researchers Lucas Apa and Cesar Cerrudo say that the attackers are unlikely to go after data, as most of the data robots handle is in transit and only captured, retrieved, processed and transmitted to be stored in other endpoints. … More → The post Robots hijacked by ransomware may soon become a reality appeared first on Help Net Security.

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