{"id":6618,"date":"2016-08-10T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:48:44","slug":"how-your-iot-home-or-car-can-be-hacked-by-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandbox.backupassist.com\/blog\/how-your-iot-home-or-car-can-be-hacked-by-ransomware","title":{"rendered":"How Your IoT Home or Car Can Be Hacked By Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the future, your household appliances or even your car\u00a0could be turned against you\u2014and it&#8217;s easier to do than you think.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hackers recently demonstrated this by hacking a smart thermostat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/ransomware-play-safe-or-pay-up\/\">ransomware<\/a>, forcing it to stay at 99 degrees. The thermostat demanded $300 in bitcoins to regain its control.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers said it was &#8220;so easy&#8221; to deliver ransomware via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5686&amp;action=edit\">Internet of Things (IoT)<\/a>, meaning people&#8217;s homes or vehicles could be upturned by hackers and held for ransom in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>IoT and Ransomware: They&#8217;re\u00a0&#8216;Not Prepared&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>These days, more and more devices like Smart TVs, Smart Cars and Smart Refrigerators are designed to be networkable\u2014but a door can be opened both ways.<\/p>\n<p>It was this message <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/08\/hacking-thermostat.html\">two white hat hackers delivered<\/a> at a DEFCON 24 security conference in Las Vegas last Saturday, demonstrating their proof-of-concept (PoC) IoT Ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (the thermostat) heats to 99 degrees, and asks for a PIN to unlock which changes every 30 seconds&#8230; you need to pay one bitcoin to unlock,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Since every process within the thermostat application runs with root privileges\u2014like many household devices\u2014no special admin permissions are needed to seize total control of the device.<\/p>\n<h1>Not\u00a0Sci-Fi: Hacker Drones Can Scan Your IoT Home<\/h1>\n<p>The announcement was not the first warning sign that the IoT\u00a0may be highly vulnerable to hacking. Security researchers\u00a0recently <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2015\/08\/hacking-internet-of-things-drone.html\">made a drone<\/a> capable of sniffing out nearby IoT devices.<\/p>\n<p>During an 18 minute flight over Austin, Texas, the drone found <em><strong>nearly 1,600 Internet-connected devices.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Not only that, almost all these devices were potentially open for hacking, from door locks to alarm systems and lightbulbs.<\/p>\n<p>At the same DEFCON 24 conference that the IoT Ransomware was displayed, two different researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/08\/smart-locks-yield-to-simple-hacker-tricks\/\">showed how easy it was<\/a>\u00a0to hack most &#8216;smart&#8217; locks with less than $200 worth of off-the shelf hardware.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, 12 out of 16 yielded to their low-cost efforts; sometimes\u00a0by something as simple as changing a byte of code.<\/p>\n<h1>How\u00a0Can I Protect My Devices?<\/h1>\n<p>Currently, there are few ways to protect your Smart Devices on the user end, according to speakers at the DEFCON conference. The ball is in the manufacturer&#8217;s court to up security or face a possible future wave of home-targeting\u00a0ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>Backing up your data and systems is still the best defense against ransomware.\u00a0You can protect your servers and desktops with BackupAssist and insulate yourself from growing ransomware threats like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/cryptolocker-and-the-backup-impact\/\">Cryptolocker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/samsam-ransomware-attacks-us-hospitals\/\">Samsam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/new-stampado-ransomware-sold-for-a-steal\/\">Stampado<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/download2.php\">Download\u00a0the\u00a030-day free trial<\/a> of BackupAssist, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/backupassist.html\">read more<\/a> about\u00a0how it can\u00a0defend your data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, your household appliances or even your car\u00a0could be turned against you\u2014and it&#8217;s easier to do than you think. Hackers recently demonstrated this by hacking a smart thermostat with ransomware, forcing it to stay at 99 degrees. The thermostat demanded $300 in bitcoins to regain its control. 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