The Spamming Refrigerator

puddingebola writes "The 'Internet of Things' is as susceptible to malware and spam as the rest of the net. From the article, 'A fridge has been discovered sending out spam after a web attack managed to compromise smart gadgets...The spam attack took place between 23 December 2013 and 6 January this year, said Proofpoint in a statement. In total, it said, about 750,000 messages were sent as part of the junk mail campaign. The emails were routed through the compromised gadgets. About 25% of the messages seen by Proofpoint researchers did not pass through laptops, desktops or smartphones, it said.' Read Proofpoint's statement here."

Comments

Fridge spam

[Anonymous Coward]

Spam from a refrigerator? That's COLD!

this is a longstanding exploit

[nimbius]

Greaybeards can surely recall the longstanding problem of fridges that sent out spam in our youth. usually the payload was cloaked, sandwiched unknowingly in our lunchboxes between two slices of bread or interleaved undetected in the dinnertime protocols frequent 'casserole' traffic. Even worse, the fridge administrator commonly ignored the issue! it wasnt until we had the option to provision and deploy our own refrigerators that we correctly addressed this problem.

Re:The Shape of things to Come!

[Anonymous Coward]

The Shape of things to Come!

I remember the good old days working on computers that were the size of a refrigerator. I guess what goes around comes around.