Hacking a Coffee Maker

2020-09-29 11:16

As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the older coffee makers to see what kinds of hacks he could do with it.

Specifically, he could trigger the coffee maker to turn on the burner, dispense water, spin the bean grinder, and display a ransom message, all while beeping repeatedly.

In any event, Hron said the ransom attack is just the beginning of what an attacker could do.

With more work, he believes, an attacker could program a coffee maker - and possibly other appliances made by Smarter - to attack the router, computers, or other devices connected to the same network.

The attacker could probably do it with no overt sign anything was amiss.

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