Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers With Porn and Demand Bitcoin
Vice Motherboard – IOActive researchers found that ransomware attackers could force SoftBank Robotics robots to demand money, display porn in public places and cuss out customers. It’s the end of your phone’s annual life cycle and you have decided to go in for an upgrade. You make your way into a local Sprint store where you are warmly greeted by Pepper, a four-foot-tall, humanoid service robot. Pepper welcomes you and asks how it can be of assistance.
What Happens When You Hold Robots for Ransom?
Dark Reading – Researchers explore why an attacker would target robots with ransomware, and the implications of what might happen if they did. Robots are in our homes, businesses, schools, and industrial facilities. They’re builders and service workers, healthcare attendants and customer assistants. As robots continue to proliferate in our lives and human-robot interactions grow, so does the potential for cyberattacks.
Robots can be hacked with ransomware & curse at customers
Hackread – Exploitable Vulnerability in Softbank’s NAO and Pepper Robots Leads to Ransomware Infection. According to the findings of security firm IOActive Labs, there is a vulnerability in Softbank Robotics’ NAO and Pepper robots that can lead to devastating ransomware attacks by causing robots deployed at workplaces to stop working.
IOActive Conducts First-Ever Ransomware Attack on Robots at Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2018
SEATTLE, WA March 9, 2018 — IOActive, Inc., the worldwide leader in research-driven security services, released a blog post today outlining how its researchers, Cesar Cerrudo and Lucas Apa, conducted the first-ever ransomware attack on robots. The blog post titled, “Robots Want Bitcoins too!,” details the hack of commercially-available Pepper and NAO robots
Pepper the annoying robot infected with ransomware in proof-of-concept attack
www.V3.co.uk – Pepper, an annoyingly chirpy robot, has been infected by malware in proof of concept by security company IOActive. In a paper entitled “Robots Want Bitcoins Too!”, shows how robots like Pepper and NAO, both commercially available and both made by Softbank, can be compromised by malware – even ransomware.