Hidden mining of crypto-currencies becoming more rampant. Hackers earn money using for mining other people’s computers, smartphones and other “smart” devices. At the world mobile Congress company Avast said about the extent of infection programs-miners and introduced a new cloud security system.
According to Avast experts, now on the infected miners early to talk about the epidemic, but disturbing signs are already visible everywhere, including in the Internet of things. For example, using a network of 15 thousand smart refrigerators, connected to the Internet, in just four days you can earn about thousands of dollars. And due to the fact that it is now connected to a network than just smartphones and computers, but also refrigerators, toothbrushes and speaker, scale, which acquires a potential threat, begins to frighten even security professionals.
Depressing and degree of protection of such devices, because often electronics manufacturers, Network-attached use for all categories of their products simple usernames and passwords, which are placed on the gadgets by default, and not too savvy in matters of security users simply forget or do not want to protect themselves from unauthorized access.
To combat “black” miners and other intruders company Avast has created a cloud-based AI service Avast Smart Home Security that will protect all Internet-connected devices. The IOT market in the coming years will grow to 75 billion connected devices, so be prepared to protect them now. System Avast Smart Home Security can prevent attacks from the Internet of things and will warn users about attempting to gain unauthorized access through the app. Details about the development of Avast is going to reveal later.
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Avast has developed an AI system for the protection of IoT from the rest of the miners
Vyacheslav Larionov