Home is where the heart is. It is also where cybercriminals are, as people working from home became an attractive target for cyberattacks during and post-pandemic. The household continues to be a cyber battlefield, and now attacks on smart home devices are on the rise in South Africa.According to Trend Micro, smart home networks have gained significant traction in South Africa over the past few years as an attack vector for bad actors.
“The main one is the WiFi router. As it’s connected to the internet, that’s the one that hackers can see and start hammering from the outside in terms of brute force attacks trying to authenticate to it. That’s sort of your first line of defence in terms of what you have on that router,” explained Russel Young, cloud solutions architect at Trend Micro South Africa.
“If it’s connected to the internet, and it’s vulnerable because you have not done any system patches that you’ve been supplied with, it is definitely a target. A few years ago baby monitors was a huge instance where they were hacked as well and from there hackers could monitor the whole house,” warned Young.
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