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Why hasn't anyone mentioned a botnet yet? Those devices are perfect targets for Mirai clones. (yes, you still cannot run a mailserver at home, currently becaus
by H8crilA 3y ago
Why hasn't anyone mentioned a botnet yet? Those devices are perfect targets for Mirai clones.
(yes, you still cannot run a mailserver at home, currently because we live in the age of Internet of Shit).
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoThis was the first thing that came to mind. Imagine a fleet of laundry machines each sending 3.7GB of data. That's the perfect way to run a DDOS, and nobody will ever notice.
- account-5 3y agoFor some reason the scene in the mall from The Mitchell's Vs the machines popped into my head: > delicates, fluff n fold, carnage!
- causal 3y agoUsing a washing machine to launder data
- deadbunny 3y agoHopefully they were using a socks proxy.
- porridgeraisin 3y agoYou win
- cyclotron3k 3y agoMost people in the reddit thread I saw seemed to assume botnet. I'm not convinced though. That would assume that the washing machine was opening an external port on the user's router, which seems unlikely. I looked up a manual for one of the the washers which has the "ThinQ" feature and there's no mention of UPnP.
- kiririn 3y agoDon’t need an open port to be a useful part of a botnet
- cyclotron3k 3y agoYes, but if it's behind a NAT gateway, how is it going to get the initial infection? I know there are ways, but realistically none of them make sense in this context.
- thefurdrake 3y agoYeah, you'd need someone on the network to be doing something like browsing the internet and coming across a malicious website capable of making requests to other nodes on the local network, or downloading something that gives an attacker userspace access to scan the local network. Those situations strike me as super rare, unlikely, and unrealistic, too.
- Johnie 3y agoThis is my assumption also.