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Hackers to Target Smart TV Sets After Phones, Kaspersky Predicts - Bloomberg

January 26, 2015

Hackers to Target Smart TV Sets After Phones, Kaspersky Predicts - Bloomberg

Bloomberg, By Olga TanasIlya and Ilya Khrennikov

Hackers are opening new horizons: having learned how to break into Apple Inc.’s iPhones they may target smart televisions next, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

“There are already Trojan viruses that can penetrate an iPhone when it’s connected to a computer,” founder and Chief Executive Officer Eugene Kaspersky said in an interview. “Smart TVs would be the next step.”

In the future, hackers will be able to interfere with smart TVs -- the latest generation of TVs that are connected to the Internet -- and require users to send a paid text message to get them unlocked, Kaspersky predicts. Criminals may also seek to steal money from online movie accounts or use the TV’s camera to record what users are doing, he said. Read more.

Hackers to Target Smart TV Sets After Phones, Kaspersky Predicts - Bloomberg

Hackers to Target Smart TV Sets After Phones, Kaspersky Predicts - Bloomberg
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